The following information is summarized from a Telegraph.UK article:
A leading British horserider and her family along with her horse were ambushed and attacked by a gang of migrants outside of the Calais refugee camp in France as she was returning home from the championships in Le Mans in the early hours of Monday morning.
Lucy Phillips, 26, who is fifth on the International Federation for Equestrian Sports rankings list for vaulting, was returning home from the Championships when their vehicle was attacked.
Upon approaching the underwater tunnel leading to Britain, her father stopped due to the road being blocked by felled trees placed by the migrants to act as a barricade.
“As we stopped, between seven and 10 men appeared out of the bushes. … They were carrying big pieces of wood and what looked like bats. They surrounded the lorry and started hitting the sides, and smacking the windows with their bats,” Phillips said.
Phillips was able to get to the back of the lorry to check on her horse, but once inside she was forced to hold onto the trailer’s door from the inside to stop migrants from gaining access. “They were trying to open the groom’s door as I was holding on to it trying to fight them off, and trying to break the windows,” she said.
Her father was blowing the horn to get the police’s attention, and the migrants then smashed a branch through the passenger window of the cab, covering her parents in glass and injuring them, causing her mother’s face and father’s arm to bleed.
Police eventually came and scared the migrants away and escorted the family from the scene, but they then left the family on their own to drive through Calais despite the fact that the migrants were still milling around on the roadside and with the family not having a passenger window.
“It seems that in the last couple of months, the violence has got horrendous. You see the news and think it’s just the big trucks, but they don’t seem to care [who they attack] anymore,” Phillips said.