Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was filming with her colleague Teun Voeten when he as 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.
Following the incident Ms Engels, who was in France filming a new documentary called Calais: Welcome to the Jungle wrote on her Facebook: '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 conditions the less creative, intelligent and ambitious are very likely to become small criminals, because they've got nothing higher to aim at.'
