The black inflatable dinghy carrying dozens of migrants set off from Gravelines beach close to the port of Calais around 7:30am local time this morning in what appeared to be fairly calm waters
Shocking footage has emerged of the moment a French border guard vessel attempted to ram a heavily overloaded migrant craft as it set out for the perilous Channel crossing to Britain this morning.
Flashing blue and red lights, the speedboat made a couple of close passes by the dinghy, warning it to turn around and head for shore. Flashing blue and red lights, the speedboat made a couple of close passes by the dinghy, warning it to turn around and head for shoreWhen the dinghy continued on, the coastguard craft pulled up alongside before appearing to ram the sorely overloaded migrant vesselMore than 19,000 migrants have entered the UK by small boat in 2024 so far - after nearly 500 people crossed the channel on Saturday, according to Home Office figures.
'The new Government is taking steps to boost our border security, setting up a new Border Security Command which will bring together our intelligence and enforcement agencies, equipped with new counter-terror-style powers and hundreds of personnel stationed in the UK and overseas, to smash the criminal smuggling gangs making millions in profit.
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