A crowd of around 200 migrants, attempting to get to Britain, made a mass attempt to gain access to the Channel Tunnel near Calais in northern France. <br /><br /> Several levels of security fencing were breached and appeared to take security personnel by surprise.<br /><br /> Only a handful of French soldiers initially stood between the migrants and the entrance to the tunnel, however they were swiftly backed up by riot police.<br /><br /> A stood ensued with the 200 migrants chanting slogans of, “Open the border” and “We are not animals”.<br /><br /> They were eventually sprayed with a chemical irritant.<br /><br /> Meanwhile, both the UK and France have asked other European Union nations to deal with the root causes of the issue.<br /><br /> Both British Home Secretary Theresa May and her French counterpart have reportedly described the situation as a “global migration crisis”.
