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Refugee Rights Data Project (RRDP, later known as Refugee Rights Europe) released a report in April 2016 called ''The Long Wait: Filling the data gaps relating to refugees and displaced people in the Calais camp''.<ref name="Cotterill1">{{cite report | first1 = Nicholas | last1 = Cotterill | display-authors = et al. | year = 2016 | title = The Long Wait: Filling data gaps relating to refugees and displaced people in the Calais camp | url = https://refugee-rights.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RRE_TheLongWait.pdf | publisher = Refugee Rights Europe | access-date = 17 March 2020 | page = 1 }}</ref> It stated that 75.9% of the 870 refugees surveyed said they had experienced [[Police brutality|police violence]], a category including physical and [[sexual violence]], [[verbal abuse]] and misuse of [[tear gas]]. A similar figure (76.7%) reported [[Refugee health|health issues]] resulting from living in the Jungle.<ref name="Violence">{{cite news |last1=Yeung |first1=Peter |title=Calais 'Jungle': 75% of refugees have 'experienced police violence' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-refugees-camp-police-violence-report-data-rights-a6968096.html |access-date=25 May 2019 |work=Independent |date=4 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525220035/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-refugees-camp-police-violence-report-data-rights-a6968096.html |archive-date=25 May 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to ''The Long Wait'', at the time of the report 71.6% of the approximately 5,500 residents had been in the camp for three to six months. About 78 people had been there for more than a year and around 205 women lived in the camp at this time (3.2% of the population).<ref name="Cotterill11">{{cite report | first1 = Nicholas | last1 = Cotterill | display-authors = et al. | year = 2016 | title = The Long Wait: Filling data gaps relating to refugees and displaced people in the Calais camp | url = https://refugee-rights.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RRE_TheLongWait.pdf | publisher = Refugee Rights Europe | access-date = 17 March 2020 | page = 11 }}</ref>
A large fight between 200 and 300 migrants from Afghanistan and Sudan broke out at the camp in late May 2016, resulting in 40 injuries (33 migrants, 5 aid workers and 2 police officers), of which 3 were serious (including a stabbing).<ref name="May2016Brawl">[http://www.dw.com/en/dozens-injured-at-fight-at-calais-jungle-migrant-camp/a-19286436 Dozens injured at fight at Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527134358/http://www.dw.com/en/dozens-injured-at-fight-at-calais-jungle-migrant-camp/a-19286436 |date=27 May 2016 }}, [[Deutsche Welle]] (27 May 2016).</ref> Two hundred police officers, seventy firefighters and eleven ambulances responded to the scene; French authorities opened an investigation.<ref name="May2016Brawl"/> At the time, [[Deutsche Welle]] estimated that 4,000 to 5,000 people lived in the camp.<ref name="May2016Brawl"/> During the summer, the population of the camp surpassed the highest number of the previous year.<ref name="MS"/><ref name="Buchanan"/> According to a July 2016 census by [[Help Refugees]], the camp was populated by 7,307 migrants, of which 761 were minors with the population growing by 50 people a day on average.<ref name="Buchanan">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/migrant-crisis-record-7300-people-now-live-calais-jungle-migrant-camp-1571819|title=Migrant crisis: A record 7,300 people now live in Calais' Jungle migrant camp|last1=Buchanan|first1=Elsa|date=21 July 2016|access-date=24 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930172830/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/migrant-crisis-record-7300-people-now-live-calais-jungle-migrant-camp-1571819|archive-date=30 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> By September, the state estimated the population at 6,901, while local [[non-governmental organisations]] (NGOs) put it at 9,000 – a figure accepted by Mayor [[Natacha Bouchart|Bouchart]].<ref name="MS"/> It was estimated that the population reached 10,000 before the camp's demolition.<ref name="ViolentInaction">{{Cite journal|last1=Davies|first1=Thom|last2=Isakjee|first2=Arshad|last3=Dhesi|first3=Surindar|date=1 January 2017|title=Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe|journal=Antipode|volume=49|issue=5|pages=1263–1284|language=en|doi=10.1111/anti.12325|issn=1467-8330|url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/48979639/Davies_et_al_2017_Antipode.pdf|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311000604/http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/48979639/Davies_et_al_2017_Antipode.pdf|archive-date=11 March 2020|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Buchanan"/> Help Refugees' final count put the population of the camp at 8,143 in October 2016.<ref name=bbc-cleared-2016 /> More than 1,000 police were deployed during the final eviction.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vandoorne |first1=Saskya |last2=Jones |first2=Bryony |last3=Narayan |first3=Chandrika |title=Tensions high inside 'Jungle' refugee camp as demolition nears |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/23/europe/calais-jungle-demolition/ |access-date=16 March 2020 |work=CNN |issue=24 October 2016 |ref=VJN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025134903/https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/23/europe/calais-jungle-demolition/ |archive-date=25 October 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In July 2017, [[Human Rights Watch]] (HRW) presented its findings on police violence in Calais based on interviews conducted with more than 60 temporary residents, half of whom were unaccompanied minors.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2017-07-26|title=Human Rights Watch dénonce l'utilisation de gaz poivre contre les migrants à Calais|language=fr|work=Le Monde.fr|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/immigration-et-diversite/article/2017/07/26/human-right-watch-denonce-l-utilisation-de-gaz-poivre-contre-les-migrants-a-calais_5164943_1654200.html|access-date=2020-12-06}}</ref> In the international NGO's report, it revealed that there was an unregulated use of pepper spray by Calais police throughout the Jungle, resulting not only in the physical and psychological trauma of the refugees, but also the spoilage of their food and water, an act which the interviewed refugees alleged as intentional. In a broader report published earlier in the month, "Nobody Deserves to Live This Way!", the [[Human Trafficking Foundation]] (HTF) noted that the hostilities of the French government and police towards Calais refugees were meant to deter them from initiating the process to seek asylum in the U.K., particularly impacting unaccompanied minors with decreased access to information about their rights.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Beddoe|first=Christine|date=July 2017|title=Nobody Deserves to Live This Way!|url=https://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/media/1262/nobody-deserves-to-live-this-way.pdf|access-date=December 5, 2020|website=Human Trafficking Foundation}}</ref>
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