Leaked document shows boat slashing failed to stop migrants reaching UK | Immigration and asylum

New concerns about the safety and applicability of the flagship of the British-French policy on cutting immigrant boots at sea, a coastal security register infiltrating the Guardian, emerged after revealing a recent boat cutting incident that did not prevent people from reaching England.

Despite the government’s commitment to stop the excessive crowded boots passing the channel, the number of people coming to England this year increased The transition of approximately 50% compared to the same period last year and more than 21,000 in 2025.

At the last meeting, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced a ‘one, an exit’ agreement that a person will be allowed to travel legally to England to request asylum in exchange for someone else to return to France.

A second part of the agreement is the intervention of overcrowded boots up to 300 meters to the sea. The application has been realized since at least 2022 Investigation last year Le Monde, Observer and Der Spiegel by Lighthouse reports.

The event, which was described in a log known as a situation report from Gris-Nez Naval Rescue Coordination Center to Guardian or a Cytrep, took place only hours before the Starmer-Macron announcement on July 9/10.

Interior Minister Yette Cooper said in his media interviews last week that France has reviewed the tactics that could produce changes based on the principle of intervention on the French waters and would suggest the results of this examination.

According to the diary, the incident began at 11.21 at the night of July 9th when Jendarmeriie intervened in the separation of a boat from Cayeux-Sur-Mer. Then they lost the vision of the boat and at 11.22, the coastal protection was asked to search with air and sea resources.

Coast Guard described the boat in the early hours of July 10. Although it was cut, he took more passengers along the beach and he was rescued by a RNN Lifeguard Boat and came to England with 55 passengers on the same day. Home Office Data It shows that 10 boats carry 573 passengers that day.

French Coast Guard Sources, the incident, even if the event cut a boat, standing, the people on the ship will not be deterred to reach the UK will not be deterred, he said evidence. It also emphasizes that the tactic that cuts the boat requires extra sea recovery resources.

In a letter open to the director published In the French media on June 25, Solidaires Douannes of the French Coast Guard Association, as part of the boat stop policies, expressed concerns about girişma increasing the corporate ill -treatment of people in exile ”.

Separately, the Brook House Migration Lift Center near Gatwick Airport was allocated to detain people who came to small boats before returning to France. It is not known how the home office will choose for return or how long it will be detained. Brook House was the subject of a public investigation after damaging the ill -treatment of the prisoners previously obtained by the BBC’s panorama.

Care4Calais, Charlotte Khan president and the Head of Public Relations condemned the evidence in the Coast Guard. Ik We are accustomed to the police savagery used against the refugee community in Northern France for years, but now what we have witnessed is a rapid increase in the violence financed by this state, ”he said.

“The cut boats in the water will risk life, but as these disturbing diaries have shown, it will not stop people from making dangerous journeys to search for security in England. Already when they escape from war and cruelty at home and get rid of the unimaginable dangers in their journey.

“In the first place, the fact that people are willing to risk their lives to look for security in the UK, regardless of how brutal the deterrers are, there must be enough evidence that they do not work. They only make more dangerous journeys.

House Office sources, the French government has not yet explained the outcome of the investigation, but the authorities of the maritime operational teams can soon intervene to stop the boats, he said.