EXCLUSIVE: £2.3million Great Wall of Calais is 'POINTLESS' as doors have NO LOCKS

A MULTI-million pound wall built to stop migrants hiding in UK-bound lorries has doors with no locks.

By Oliver Pritchard in Calais /

Reporter shows how easy it is to open the wall's door HUMPHREY NEMAR

OPEN AND SHUT: The Calais wall's doors have no lock despite costing British taxpayers £2.3m

The 13ft-high construction, dubbed The Great Wall of Calais, cost £2.3million of UK taxpayers’ cash.

It skirts more than half a mile of the N216 motorway, which runs into the Port of Calais ferry terminal.

Thousands of UK-bound lorries and tourists use the route every year – making it a magnet for migrants looking to enter Britain by hiding inside vehicles.

The barrier is intended to prevent this. 

Reporter opening a wall's door HUMPHREY NEMAR

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Reporter going through an open door in the wall HUMPHREY NEMAR

POINTLESS: The wall's steel doors have handles and a catch which can be opened without a key

However, when the Daily Star visited the area on Saturday, our reporter discovered the wall’s doors are not fitted with locks.

On the motorway side, the steel doors have handles and a catch which can be opened without a key.

One would-be illegal immigrant revealed that if he and his pals want to get through, one will run to the end of the wall – which ends at a roundabout close to where migrants live in shelters.

They simply go around the end, then run down the other side to one of the doors and let accomplices through. 

Migrants step over the fence in Calais EPA/YOAN VALAT

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Protests at Jungle Migrant Camp

 
French business owners and locals blockade the main road into the Port of Calais as they await the arrival of a convoy of trucks protesting against The Jungle migrant camp, calling for it to be demolished. Up to 10,000 migrants are now living at the camp and are using desperate and violent measures to try and board trucks heading for the UK
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Demonstrators protest near the area called the "jungle" where migrants live in Calais, France, October 1, 2016

    Our source said: “It’s easy.

    “They can’t stop us getting on to the lorries.

    “We will always find a way to get to England.”

    One aid worker said: “The wall is totally pointless.”

    It is understood the doors are intended to give maintenance workers access to the motorway and allow police to intercept migrants on the road.

    A Home Office spokesman said: “Security for the wall is a responsibility for the French authorities.”