Jeremy Corbyn spent the day at a squalid refugee camp in
Dunkirk, to see first-hand the awful conditions people live in after fleeing
war-torn countries.
More than 2,500 people are sleeping rough in the cold, wet
weather at the Grande-Synthe Camp in northern France.
And as Corbyn visits the site the refugee crisis only gets
worse, with Germany joining a growing list of countries confiscating cash and
valuables from asylum seekers.
People forced to stay at the camp were keen to get selfies
with Corbyn – and one family even gave him their very adorably-dressed baby to
hold.
The baby, however, wasn’t really in the mood – his parent
told the Labour leader he was hungry.
Addressing refugees and press at the camp, he described
living conditions at Grande-Synthe ‘a disgrace’.
What I’m trying to achieve here is to understand the nature
of the refugee crisis that’s facing the whole of Europe,’ he said.
‘Ultimately we deal with the situation by dealing with the
problem at its source, which are the wars and conflicts.
Also, there are the human needs of people. We have got
people here who have been here for months, if not longer than that, with no
proper education, no access to doctors, no access to dentists, limited access
to food – in very cold, very wet conditions.
The number of refugees at Grande-Synthe has risen steadily
since last October, from around 800 people to about 2,500 sleeping rough in
recent weeks.
Most of the people are Kurds from Iran, Syria and Iraq, and
include around 250 children, according to Médecins Sans Frontières.
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