The protest set out from ”The Jungle,” a makeshift camp of tents and shacks on the outskirts of the city, and finished up on the Calais pier. Some 4,000 immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Afganistan and Pakistan, fleeing conditions of war and social crisis, have been staying in the camp for months.

The demonstration was the initiative of French immigrant rights organizations, including Emmaus, Article 13 and Migrants’ Inn. Supporters came from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the U.K. Protesters carried handmade placards with the names of the 12 people who have died attempting to cross the English Channel from Calais to the U.K. since June. Other placards read “No more deaths” and “Migrants = humans.” Banner above reads, “Bring down the walls.”