French police slash inflatable migrant boat heading to UK
In the middle of the chaotic scenes, the French police entered the shallow waters from a beach in the south of Boulogne early on Friday morning, and used knives to cut a small boat full of men, women and children – this was walking dangerously in the waves.
When the boat collapsed, all this hit security.
The intervention is quite unusual.
The French police usually follow the strict rules that prevent them from entering the sea if they put their lives at risk.
Im Let’s go in, dedi one of the gendarmes said, pulled his body armor and pulled a small knife. His colleagues took off his heavy armor and placed equipment behind a nearby police car before running into the water.
It is possible to see this rare event as proof that the French police have changed their tactics under increasing pressure to stop the fluctuation of small boat immigrant transitions to England.
However, well -placed sources in France, the currently taken into consideration, almost certainly, almost certainly, instead of confirming the more aggressive interventions of the police on the beaches, before completely loading “taxi boats” to focus on the use of patrol boats to stop the use of patrol boats, he said.
In a few meters in the open sea, the boat itself was clearly in trouble. People stood briefly, but the restarted out of the outdoor was crowded around the engine.
The waves were broken under the boat, causing it to hug crazy, and there were loud screams than a few children who were dangerous to crush on board.
Previously, two large groups of people who already wore orange life vest from nearby dunes had emerged and ran to the sea.
There were probably 80 or 100 people in total. However, the first “taxi” used by smuggling gangs to collect passengers from various points on the coast of the French coast was perhaps full of 100 meters from the shore, it was already full and did not stop to get anyone.
A few minutes later, a second boat, almost no passengers, came to the shore watched further by a French Coast Guard boat to the British channel.
Initially, people were advanced in organized groups, holding hands and governed by a man who looked like leading events.
However, as the inflatable boat turned to the shore, dozens of people had a scrum while trying to climb in water at least in the depth of waist.
At first, the gendarmes refused to intervene and stopped watching the shore.
An officer has now repeated a familiar statement – it was forbidden to enter the water except to save people.
However, as the situation became chaotic, the civil servants at the scene made it clear that a line has passed, the ship is now in danger, and that there was a short opportunity to disable the boat in relative security, and that any smugglers who might have fought were away from the attempts to restart the engine.
While a police were cut off again and again, they were screaming and screaming of anger and disappointment from some of the residents.
In the middle of Scrum, a young girl crushed from the ass of the boat close to the engine, others were severed to security while dealing with nearby sand.
Shortly thereafter, when the immigrants began to collect the items they fell into the beach, and then the boat began to collect the items they moved towards the migrant camps from the dunes to the nearest village, and to the north migrant camps.
