French police cut inflatable migration boat that goes to the UK

Among the chaotic scenes, the French police made it into small waters near the beach south of the boule, early in the morning on Friday and used knives to cut an inflatable little boat – stuffed with men, women and children – it was dangerous, dangerous, in the waves.

All those on board got up for safety when the boat fell apart.

The intervention was very unusual.

French police usually comply with strict rules that forbid them to go out to the sea when they are threatened.

“Let’s go,” said one with the jew, pulling the armor and exporting a small knife. His colleagues also remove his heavy armor by placing the equipment in the back of a nearby police car before rushing into the water.

You can see this rare incident as proof that the French police are under pressure to stop migrants’ intersection in the UK – changes its tactics.

But well -located sources in France told us that the procedural changes that are now being considered are almost certainly focused on using patrol boats in the sea for interception “taxi” before they are fully loaded, rather than approval of more aggressive police interventions on the beaches.

A few meters on the shore, the boat itself was clearly in trouble. People were crowded with a suspended engine that was short -lived but was restarted.

The waves broke under the boat, causing it wildly, and there were loud screams from several children who threatened to be crushed on board.

Earlier, two large groups of people who had already dressed orange rescue vests appeared from the neighboring dunes and rushed toward the sea.

There were probably 80 or 100 people in total. But when the first “taxi driver” – used by smuggling gangs to collect passengers from different points along the French coast – run past, 100 m from the shore, it was clearly full and did not stop to choose anyone else.

A few minutes later, the second boat, which almost without passengers, approached the shore, which was watched by the French shore boat further on the English channel.

Initially, people put forward in organized groups, holding hands, and the director is one person who seemed to be a presenter.

But when the inflatable boat turned and rolled toward the shore, there was a scare when dozens of people rose to rise on board at least the waist.

At first, the gendarmes refused to intervene and stood, watching from the shore.

One officer repeated a familiar explanation for me that they were banned from going into the water, except for the salvation of people.

But as the situation became more chaotic, officers at the scene clearly considered that the line crossed that those who were aboard are now threatened with danger, and that there was a short opportunity to disable the boat in relative security, and while any smugglers – who could have affected.

As the policeman repeatedly cut the rubber, there were shouts and shouts of anger and frustration from some of these on board.

A young girl who was in the middle of the Scrum broken into the feed of the boat, near the engine, was torn to security when others moved to the nearest sand.

A moment later, the police were drawn ashore when the migrants began to collect the items they threw on the beach, and then headed deep into the country, up the sandy trails through the dunes to the nearest village and the bus back to the migrants camp further north.