Rather misleading, in that the Calais camp has been there for years, long before the Syrian crisis, and has always had people trying to get to Britain from many different countries. In recent years large numbers of Eritreans and Ethiopians. The Syrians are a recent and relatively minor component of the camp’s population.
Possibly, but, given the number of sob stories about poor Syrian “refugees” and the “horrific conditions” at the Calais camp (”Jungle”), one might be forgiven a bit of journalistic license in this case. In the story at the link, one poor Syrian refugee had to settle for the limited benefits provided by the French government just to escape the conditions at the camp while he was waiting for approval of his application for asylum in the UK.
All together now... “Awwwwww...”