The artwork is here. I watched the video below until it was clear there was tear gas (or some sort of gas). I don’t especially recommend watching it all the way through, though I don’t know how bad it got. For more details about police actions and earlier use of tear gas, see https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/police-violence-in-the-jungle-calais/.
Did anyone know that tear gas was being used? A police spokesperson says it wasn’t. One wishes such spokespeople were kept more in the picture. From the Guardian:
The work is the latest in a series of pieces by the graffiti artist criticising Europe’s handling of the ongoing refugee crisis. It is a direct comment on the recent attempts by French authorities to bulldoze part of the camp in Calais – which has now been deemed unsafe – and evict about 1,500 refugees.
Speaking to the Guardian last week, a police spokesperson, Steve Barbet, denied that teargas was being used to clear the camps. “It’s not in our interest to use teargas unless it’s absolutely necessary to restore public order, and it is never used in the camp itself,” he said.
But the seven-minute clip posted on YouTube clearly shows teargas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades being used by the French authorities in an overnight raid in early January. Videos and reports of the repeated use of CS gas also emerged last Monday as French police attempted to create a 100-metre buffer zone between the camps and the motorway.
The video:
Feminist Philosophers 
Reblogged this on Refugee Archives @ UEL.
Yes I posted about the use of tear gas in November.
By which l mean it’s been going on since then at least. Friends in the ground there told me then its a nightly occurrence and they’ve no regard for babies and young children sleeping in tents.
‘On’ the ground -sorry I’m on my phone.
Monkey, thanks so much. I’ve put in a link to your post. It makes quite a story.