Moment migrant is caught jumping out of a lorry at Port of Dover trying to LEAVE the UK and pleads with police: ‘I just want to go back to France!’
This is the moment a migrant was caught trying to smuggle himself out of England in the back of a lorry, pleading with police: ‘I just want to go back to France!’
The man was seen jumping out of a lorry as he was being searched by officers at the Port of Dover ferry terminal in Kent before running towards the exit.
The footage appears in the latest episode of Channel 4 documentary Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port, which follows the police force and airs today at 8pm.
Officers patrolling the port were filmed chasing the immigrant in a police van, then catching him and pushing him against a concrete barrier near the taxi stand.
One of the police officers says ‘we have a prisoner’, others come to stop him from escaping again but the man tells them: ‘Why prisoner? ‘I just want to go back to France!’
The clip, shared with the Daily Mail, shows officers Neil and Ian working at the port after arresting another man who failed to turn up for court in a separate case.
On the way to a local police station, they receive an urgent call about the immigrant: ‘There is a male walking away from the buffer zone, away from Securitas.’
The officers make a U-turn, head for the exit and set out to catch the man, described to them as ‘Asian-looking, wearing a gray hooded jacket and black tracksuits’.
Officers catch migrant jumping from truck at Port of Dover ferry terminal
As officers lead the man to a police van, he pleads: ‘I just want to go back to France!’
As they head towards the taxi stand, the man is spotted and one of them shouts: ‘There he is, there he is, get ready.’ He approached the minibus and said ‘Stop!’ they shout.
Officers jump out of the van and another says: ‘Stay where you are.’ An officer grabs the man and pins him against a wall before a colleague can help him.
A third officer then arrives to assist. One says: ‘We have a prisoner. ‘You take the minibus.’ They tell the man, ‘Stay there, we have time.’
But the immigrant says to them: ‘Why is he detained? ‘I just want to go back to France!’
The officer then says: ‘But I don’t know what he did. Last I know, you’re running away from someone. France says no.’
Police were told the man jumped out of the back of a truck after being illegally placed in the back, and there were four other people in the caravan.
An officer says: ‘Oh my God! You… are there four more in the caravan?’
The migrant continues to beg: ‘I just want to go back to France!’
But the officer tells him: ‘I understand. ‘You are in this country and there are borders and the French say you are here, you are not allowed to enter France.’
They put him in a police van and were told: ‘Okay, you’re there for a minute, it’s nothing nonsense.’
One police officer says: ‘It is clear there is a prisoner in our van but we are receiving calls from colleagues who believe there is another prisoner in the truck.
The man was taken into a police van by officers after he was caught at the ferry terminal in Kent.
Officers noticed the man running away towards the taxi rank at the Port of Dover.
‘But the security team is taking care of it. ‘We need to take this man into custody because he is under arrest.’ They then ask him: ‘Are you okay in the back?’
The officers then joke with each other, saying that one of them had “said the Q word” before; This implies that the night was quiet, which is considered bad luck on the shift.
Port Dover Police later confirmed the man had made a ‘community decision’. This is an out-of-court order normally used for less serious crimes and incidents such as low-level public order, criminal damage, theft and minor assaults.
It comes as the Daily Mail revealed how Labor secretly lifted a ban on small boat migrants and other illegal immigrants gaining British citizenship.
The extraordinary U-turn followed a legal challenge that claimed the policy violated human rights laws and international refugee agreements.
It means illegal immigrants granted asylum here can now get British passports, three years after they were banned by the Conservative Party.
They must claim that their arrival in the UK without permission was “outside their control”, according to documents prepared by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
‘Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port’ airs tonight at 8pm on Channel 4
