The French police entered the water off a beach south of Boulogne and used knife to pierce a rubber boat full of migrant people, including men, women and children, who was about to try the crossing of the sleeve channel towards the United Kingdom. The scene was taken up by the US issuer BBC. There are no injuries, but as BBC pointed out, it was a less unusual intervention, which was greeted with approval by the spokesman of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The images of the operation represent “a significant moment and we welcome this action – he said – we want that harder actions are undertaken. This is precisely the goal of our work and it is the result of this close work you have seen”.
What happened
There are several inflatable boats that are starting from the French coast in these days to try the journey to the United Kingdom. It is a phenomenon that periodically resumes vigor according to the seasons and the trend of flows. In this case, the correspondent of BBC told, a first rubber boat appeared that contained between 80 and 100 people. When he went about 100 meters from the shore, he was already full of people and he didn’t let anyone else go up. Some people who had blossomed from the dunes of the beach, however, still rushed to the boat and when, a few minutes later, a second boat came out, tried to climb with difficulty, due to the moved sea. The police had remained to look because, they called them, he has the order not to enter the water except to save people. When they in the end they intervened with the knives aroused the frustration of passengers, who protested animatedly. The boat was dragged to the shore by the police.