Safety in Calais and Dunkirk area

I’ve stayed in Dunkirk with my wife. Nice accommodations and pleasant to walk around. I don’t see any issues that would leave one in doubt of personal safety.

So sad that you think that immigrants are inherently dangerous or pose a risk to you.

As a woman, who has worked with refugees and migrants (it is my career) for 30 years, I think this type of language is very unhelpful.

I'm sure this response will get deleted, but I had to say it.

I think as a female travelling alone, keep the car doors locked when driving and take the same safety precautions when in an area you are unfamiliar with. From what I have read, it is the women living in those refugee camps who have been and are very vulnerable to sexual assaults and not tourists.

Emily - You make a good point, it would be sad if it will be removed.

Emily; thank you for your post and for the work that you do.

I think it’s a fair question, although I agree there doesn’t seem to be much risk for the ordinary traveler in this region. It’s not necessarily that there are migrants there that themselves pose a potential risk, but that there are ruthless organized criminal gangs operating there to transport and exploit them.

The organised crime groups operating in the area will not have the slightest interest in tourists visiting the area. You will be fine.

I'm impressed that the OP is aware of this humanitarian disaster, since most of the world isn't. I haven't been in the area, but from all the reports on TV, the immigrants are in isolated areas and their welfare is attended to by local volunteers.