DP’s centre dismantled

Published December 15, 2002

PARIS, Dec 14: Two weeks before its final closure, the Sangatte refugee center at Calais is already being dismantled, with most of its 1700 former inhabitants well on their way to Britain.

As for the several hundred DPs who continue to mill about the center, indeed around the Church of Saints Peter and Paul which had once housed some of them, a local charitable association says that it’s doing what it can to come to their assistance.

The final destination of new DPs who are often whisked away at night in anonymous government buses is being kept secret in an effort to keep away the international press.

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