Shocking moment journalists filming conditions at Calais Jungle are robbed at knife-point by the migrants they were trying to help

• Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was making documentary in Calais Jungle
• She was filming when her colleague Teun Voeten was attacked by migrants
• Three young men armed with knife and pepper spray tried to steal camera 
• Pair saved when other migrants came to their rescue and ran attackers off

This is the shocking moment migrants armed with a 'big knife' and pepper spray attacked journalists in Calais' notorious Jungle on Saturday.

Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was filming with her colleague Teun Voeten when he was attacked and pushed into a tent  by the three young men as they attempted to steal his camera.

Ms Engels continued to film even as she tried to fight the youngsters off, kicking one when he approached her with a knife before the three attackers were chased off by other refugees who threw stones at them.

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Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was filming in the Calais Jungle with her colleague Teun Voeten when he was attacked and pushed to the ground by the three young men who tried to steal his camera

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One of the youngsters was clutching a large knife (pictured right) during the attempted mugging on Saturday

Following the incident Ms Engels, who was in France filming a new documentary called Calais: Welcome to the Jungle, wrote on her Facebook page: 'Within every community, among the good ones, you'll always find a couple of a**holes. 

'The Jungle is no exception. But I guess living under such deplorable conditions the less creative, intelligent and ambitious are very likely to become small criminals, because they've got nothing higher to aim at.' 

Source: Daily Mail