
As migrants stormed the perimeter fence at the notorious Calais Jungle camp this afternoon, police surrounded the desperate mob and fired tear gas at MailOnline columnist Katie Hopkins.

In the violent scenes that followed, MailOnline photographer Roland Hoskins was attacked by migrants and subjected to a vicious assault. Here is her story.

Taki! Taki! Truck Truck! The cries went up, men shouting, running towards us. Hundreds of men, young men, running, running, towards the security fence that keeps the migrants penned inside the Jungle camp at Calais.

The lorries at the port were backed up, one after the other. The truckers' least favourite position as targets, sitting ducks - vulnerable to attack.

Hundreds massed at the line of fences. Pulling at them, ripping at metal, desperate to get a head start on the police with their tear gas, dogs and guns.

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Katie Hopkins was caught up in violent scenes just hours after arriving at the Jungle migrant camp near the Port of Calais. Migrants who had stormed the metal fence can be seen fleeing the area as police fire tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd

Hundreds of migrants charge towards the Calais Port fence as they attempt to climb on to lorries queuing on the motorway

Armed police bundle out of vans as they prepare to fire tear gas canisters into a crowd of migrants charging the fence

Even those most determined to continue the siege were eventually forced to turn away, covering their heads and eyes

Photographer Roland Hoskins was capturing the action when he was kicked by men who pulled his cameras away from him

But soon it came. The first wave of smoke - stinging the air. Some took to higher ground - watching, wise. They'd seen it all before.

Others determined to make it. To be smarter than the smoke. Heads wrapped, eyes covered. Shrouded in acrid stinging stuff, eyes streaming, still shouting each other on. Taking the pain. It would go. And hope along with it.

Suddenly, the noise of more shots fired, shouting, men running suddenly excited. Something, anything happening in camp. A chance. Hope at last of the possibility of getting out of the cage.

One man bends down and grabs a tear gas canister, spewing its poison, throwing it back over the fence, right back at the police. Still defiant, refusing to be beaten back.

Later our photographer, Roland Hoskins, blinded by the gas, was suddenly split from our group, busy capturing the commotion. Three or four men pulling his cameras away from him. Another with a knife, cutting the straps. A bigger guy kicking him in the back to get the kit away. Kicking until he let his camera fall.

His phone. Gone. His wallet. Disappeared.

Hundreds of men massed at the fence line, pulling and ripping at metal in a bid to get a head start on the police with tear gas

Many the men cover their eyes and run back towards their tents as the police fire the first canisters of tear gas

Armed police officers are deployed to the scene after migrants from the Jungle camp tried to storm the Calais Port fence

Residents of the migrant Jungle camp flee the area around the metal fence after police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd

A streaming canister of tear gas is catapulted into the the middle of a group of migrants trying to penetrate the fence

Migrants are overcome by the tear gas, forcing them to back away from the fence and the lorries they were trying to board

Even with their eyes streaming from the stinging tear gas, some men continue to try and topple the barbed wire fencing

A group of migrants huddle near the fence, covering their faces in an apparent attempt to reduce the effects of tear gas

The stinging gas soon becomes too much and the men break apart, apparently sprinting back towards the camp

Men coming now to help him, three or four migrants working to help their fellow adventurers, volunteering for charity groups, earning status as French citizens, trying to create a sense of right in the midst of wrong.

Roland, saved by these forces of good, was bundled into the shipping container of Care4Calais, separating him from the mob, gathering at the door - wanting to get at him, still hungry for the taste of their captive with his cash.

Finding him at last, at the back of the container in the heat and the dark, eyes red and raw, I wondered how quickly all that had happened.

Less than two hours after entering the Jungle, to search out the good, meet the children in need of help, to understand why tensions are rising - the reinforced fencing was torn apart. We were tear-gassed amongst the excitable mob and our cameraman was left shaking in the back of a shipping container stripped of his kit.

Katie Hopkins stands in front of a wall covered in graffiti reading 'London Calling' near the Jungle migrant camp in Calais

Lorry drivers wait like sitting ducks as they queue along the motorway. The trucks are often targeted by migrants

Migrants trip and stumble as they race down the mound back towards the Jungle migrant camp where they live

Trails of what appear to be tear gas canisters streak the air as police crackdown on the latest attempt to charge the fence

Hundreds of men filled with hatred still attempt to reach the fence caging them in, even as tear gas hangs heavy in the air

The hundreds of men charging the fence call to each other as their eyes begin to sting from the tear gas fired by police

The air thick with tear gas, a small group of migrants still try to tear apart the metal fence, desperate to reach the motorway

A pair of police officers, seen right, aim what appears to be a tear gas gun as others carrying riot shields line up near the fence

Clouds of tear gas rise above the makeshift tents of the Jungle migrant camp as migrants flee from the metal fence

I wondered what has happened in this place to make people behave this way. Every man for himself. Taking trust easier than earning respect. Every man for himself. No women in sight.

There are forces for good. They came to Roland's defence. They returned his phone. They found a van in which to bundle us out of camp, sitting in the dark, out to safety. The police now there to protect us, a moment before running amongst the mob, a target for stinging tears.

But the good is up against it here in the Jungle. The excitable mob is highly charged. Tinder dry - waiting for a single spark to set a wild fire of rebellion ripping across camp.

Taki! Taki! Truck! Truck! And the camp rages into life. Men running filled with hatred for the cage which traps them, hatred for the police who patrol it. Hatred for a life without hope stuck the wrong side of a fence and the wrong side of a Chanel they are desperate to cross.

And not a wave of tear gas, a reinforced security fence, nor the pleas of those trying to maintain some sense of civility can stop them.

I came here looking for good.

Looking at our cameraman Roland, a bit broken now, I accept I am going to have to search a great deal harder to find it.

Excited and desperate for a way out of the camp, hundreds of migrants race towards the metal fence that cages them in

A mob of migrants begins to gather at the metal fence which borders the Jungle camp as they try to reach the waiting lorries

The men start to grapple and pull each other as they try to flee the area before the tear gas canisters are fired

Streams of what appears to be tear gas smoke rise above the tents of the migrant Jungle camp as the police move in

Wrapping their faces with scarves and cloths, migrants flee from the fence as tear gas canisters are fired into the crowd

A group of men look relaxed as they sprayed each other with a hose in one corner of the Jungle, just hours before the violence

The migrants, among the thousands who live in the Jungle camp, were seen washing themselves and their clothing today

A group of migrants seen taking a stroll along the fence earlier today, hours before tear gas was fired into a crowd

Men were seen washing in a communal area of the camp just hours before hundreds of migrants stormed the fence

These peaceful scenes in the Jungle earlier today are far removed from the highly charged clash witnessed by Katie Hopkins

Migrants queued up for supplies in one corner of the vast camp earlier today, hours before violence erupted