French illegal immigrants detained in the centre they helped to build

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Police called in to investigate a riot at the centre, near Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, arrested the Turkish men after a tipoff from security guards.

A third worker was immediately deported, while there was speculation yesterday a fourth had escaped.

The French government aims to deport 26,000 migrants a year, and the employment of two workers has led to embarrassment in the country

They were building an extension to double the capacity of the Mesnil-Amelot centre, the scene of hunger strikes last Christmas.

One of the men said he had been working in France for two and a half years and had been hired by an employment agency to work on the centre, which is run by the French Ministry of Defence.

It is a huge embarrassment to the French government, which has given police a target of deporting 26,000 immigrants a year.

France's immigration minister Brice Hortefeux blamed French human rights group SOS-Soutien for sparking the August 2 riot, when detainees clashed with police.

Forty SOS militants were chanting slogans outside the centre at the time of the disturbances and the conservative minister accused them of inflaming tensions.

Last month, one detention centre was burned to the ground after an Algerian detainee died in custody. It was later found he died of natural causes