A massive, two-hour brawl involving more than 100 Eritrean and Afghan nationals in Calais on Thursday left five migrants in critical condition after being shot. Twenty-two people were injured. They had been standing in line waiting for food handouts.

Tensions have been high in the French port city since 2016 when authorities demolished a makeshift encampment known as the “Jungle,” which hosted thousands of migrants attempting to make their way to the United Kingdom across the English Channel.

Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who visited the camp on Friday, spoke of an “unbearable” escalation of violence. He blamed human traffickers for “fueling daily violence and brawls.”

He reiterated the government’s stance of not allowing migrants settle in the area. “The message I want to get across is that if you want to go to Britain, it’s not here you should come,” he insisted.

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What we know

• Five people were shot during the fight, all of them Eritrean migrants between the ages of 16 and 18.
• It was not initially clear who fired the shots, no arrests have been made.
• The government has sent police reinforcements to the area
• The fight was between Afghan and Eritrean migrants. Authorities said police intervened to “protect the Afghan migrants faced with 150 to 200 Eritrean migrants.”
• Humanitarian groups working in the area believe roughly 800 migrants remained in the area after the “Jungle” was demolished.
• The migrants have camped in Calais in hopes of making their way to the UK by stowing rides on lorries passing through the port city. readmore