Callous and cold to citizenry in Calais

RIGHT NOW, as we speak, there is a little 11-year-old Afghan boy called Shafiq all alone in the migrant camp in Calais, writes Suzanne Harrington.

The other day his dad made it through the tunnel to Britain, but left Shafiq behind, presumably because the risks were so deadly. I don’t know what the dad’s reasons were, but they would have had to have been pretty serious to have left his boy behind.

Shafiq was interviewed by a BBC journalist, via a translator. He said he was “feeling really bad” and didn’t know what to do. Another boy said that the children at the camp couldn’t study, couldn’t play, couldn’t be children. And this is happening just a few miles away in Calais. Not Kabul, or Aleppo, or Congo, but France.