Posted on 08/28/2025 12:59:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
French police are refusing to intercept migrant dinghies in the water and are yet to receive any new orders from Paris, it has emerged. In another huge blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s small boats plan, senior figures condemned a lack of officers, training and equipment.
And one admitted police do not “really want to go into the water to stop people”. In a stark assessment, Marc Musiol, a UN1TE representative for border police at Calais, Dunkirk, and Coquelles, declared “there’s nothing on the horizon to suggest that we’re going to change the way we work”.
He said: “As of today, the personnel of the general service unit here at Coquelles have not received any new intervention doctrines.
“Police, in their interventions and modus operandi on the beaches … are still intervening in the same way and there’s nothing on the horizon to suggest that we’re going to change the way we work.”
In June, the French cabinet agreed to allow officers to intercept migrant boats within 300 metres of the coast.
The tactic is considered crucial to preventing people smugglers launching so-called "taxi-boats", where migrants wade out into the water and wait for a dinghy.
This leads to chaotic scenes as asylum seekers try to haul themselves onto already dangerously overcrowded boats.
Jean-Christophe Couvy, general secretary of UN1TE, added: “As a union member, I’m going to tell my colleagues not to go into the water.”
Mr Couvy said officers were yet to receive any instructions about intercepting small boats at sea.
He added: “We can’t ask officers to risk their lives without protection.
“I don’t want a police officer to drown because we ask him to go into the water and stop migrants.
“I don’t think officers really want to go into the water to stop people.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
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Oh yeah, I'm sure that wasn't all worked out in advance with Macron.
Can’t blame the Frogs for wanting to unload their parasites.
“Heaven didn’t want them and Hell threw them out.” —Chinese proverb
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