The eviction of the Calais jungle is about to begin, but who does this act of brutality serve? On the one hand, cynical politicians looking to the French presidential election next year, desperately trying to cling onto power with a show of toughness. But also, it will boost the profits of a host of private companies who supply the rubber bullets and barbed wire, bulldozers and deportation buses.

Calais Research Network, a research group formed this August, has compiled an expanded list of over 40 companies profiting from the border regime. These companies have an interest in building up ‘security’ in Calais and beyond, part of a flourishing industry surrounding everything from the privatization of lorry inspections to the manufacturing of tear gas canisters and the constantly proliferating fences and walls along the highway.

The full list with detailed information on each company can be viewed on the new Calais Research website. This companies list is the first page to be published on the site. In the coming days further pages will be added to map out some of the many axes of power that shape the reality of the border, including further information on the decision-makers behind the securitisation of Calais, and more detailed investigations of key companies including Eurotunnel and Vinci.

This list is still far from complete, and we will continue to update it as we uncover more information. If you have any information on these companies or others, please send it to us at calaisresearch(at)riseup.net. Your confidentiality will be fully respected. We would also be interested to hear more accounts of corruption and collaboration in the NGO sector.

Initial list of Calais border profiteers:

Security Guards:

Eamus Cork Solutions (ECS): freight searching, detention and prisoner

‘escorting’

Tascor: holding facilities and detainee transport

Biro Sécurité: biometric technology and security guards in the

“Container Camp” and Jules Ferry Centre

ATMG: Security on the container camp construction site

Mondial Protection: port and rail freight security

Wagtail: Border detection dogs

Walls, Fences, and Construction:

Vinci, including subsidiaries Sogea and Eurovia: camp demolitions,

wall construction, and just about everything else …

Jackson’s Fencing: 2015 fence

Zaun Ltd.: 2014 NATO fence

Groupe CW (Clôtures Michel Willoquaux): container camp fences 2015

Logistic Solutions: containers for the Container Camp

Border Technology:

L3 Communications: X-Ray Scanning Equipment

Roke Manor Research / Chemring Group: PMMWI (Passive Millimeter-Wave

Imaging) and Vehicle Scanning

Thales: port security and drones

FLIR Systems: thermal cameras

Smiths Detection: X-Ray technology

AMG Systems: CCTV technology for Eurotunnel

Clearview Communications: Eurotunnel CCTV

Rapiscan Systems Ltd. / OSI Systems: X-Ray Technology

Scan-X Security: X-Ray Technology

Chess Dynamics: day/night vision systems for Border Force boats

SmartWitness: DIY truck security systems

VisionTrack: DIY truck security systems

Deportation and Detention:

Twin Jet: deportation jet charter

Police support services:

IBIS (Accor S.A.): hotel of choice for the CRS riot police

Buzzlines Travel: bus transport of UK Border Force officers

Police weapons:

SAE Alsetex: teargas

Etienne Lacroix: teargas

Nobel Sport: teargas, most common variety used in the Jungle

SAPL: stun grenades

Verney-Carron: flashballs

Brügger & Thomet

Taser France

Marck

Combined Systems: teargas and rubber bullet guns