Most of the asylum seekers in The Jungle were Afghan, and many of them were minors.

Fifteen-year-old Sail Pardes, from eastern Afghanistan, said that conditions had been rough at the camp, but that the hardship was worth it.

'It's been too hard. A lot of the time we are hungry and we don't sleep much,' he said. 'The most important thing is to get to England. I want to go to school and become a better person.'

It remained unclear what would happen to the immigrants evicted from The Jungle. Some of them are to be returned to their last port of transit, which in most cases was in Greece.

According to regional authorities, since Jan 1, about 180 migrants have accepted an offer to be deported with the incentive of a small sum of money.

Since May, 170 of the illegals from The Jungle have applied for asylum in France, authorities said.

However, activists believe that many of them will simply move on to Paris, which already has a large population of Afghan asylum seekers and not enough beds available for them.