Calais mayor threatens to block port over immigrants in UK row
Paris (AFP) - Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart has threatened to shut down the port unless Britain helps solve the problem of the hundreds of immigrants turning up there in a bid to sneak across the Channel.
"I could take the decision to block the port... I could bring pressure to bear," Bouchart told reporters in Paris after meeting Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Tuesday.
"It would be illegal," she recognised, "but today I want to make a strong gesture towards the British."
The mayor took issue with British immigration policy which, she complained, "is "considered as an Eldorado" by immigrants. ...