Nicholas Farrell Nicholas Farrell

The road to the Jungle

Why would a young Nigerian cross the Sahara, Libya, the Med and most of Europe in a quest to reach Britain?

issue 15 October 2016

 Calais

‘I can’t decide which of them is unelectable.’

On Sunday evening a British motorist, Abraham Reichman, 35, from Stamford Hill, north London, hit two Eritrean migrants who were trying to block the A16 outside Calais. They had leapt in front of his car, he says, as he slowed down to avoid dozens of migrants on the motorway.

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