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PARIS, Oct 14 (APP/AFP) – The total dismantling of the “Jungle” migrant camp in northern France will begin soon, a French minister said in comments published Friday. The makeshift settlement in Calais has become a focal point in France of Europe’s migrant crisis, the subject of heated debate among politicians and a constant source of tension with Britain, which is where the migrants hope to end up. “The dismantlement will begin when all the conditions for success are in place, “Housing Minister Emmanuelle Cosse told the Liberation daily. “We are almost there and we will carry on to the end,” she added. The minister insisted that it was “out of the question to leave these people living any longer in that mud and that distress” deeming another winter in the Jungle “impossible”. Eleven French charities on Wednesday sought a court order to block the planned demolition, deeming it an attack on fundamental rights.