French police lower the inflatable migrant boat heading to the United Kingdom

Amid chaotic scenes, the French police toured shallow waters off the southern Polonie Beach early Friday morning and used knives to reduce a blowable small boat – packed with men, women and children – that was seriously dilapidated in the waves.

All those who have climbed to safety with the collapse of the boat.

The intervention was very unusual.

The French police usually follow strict rules that prevent them from going to the sea if they are at risk.

“Let’s go,” said one of Al -Monduz, pulling his body shield, and removing a small knife. His colleagues also rid their heavy shields, putting the equipment at the back of a nearby police car before rushing to the water.

It is possible to see this rare incident as evidence that the French police – under the increasing pressure to stop the increase in the small migrant crossings to the United Kingdom – change their tactics.

But the sources in a good position in France told us that the procedural changes that are now considered will definitely focus on the use of patrol boats in the sea to intercept “taxi boats” before loading them completely, instead of agreeing to the most aggressive interventions of the police on the beaches.

A few meters away, the same boat was in trouble. People were crowded around the external engine, which stopped for a short time but was restarted.

The waves were broken below the boat, causing it violently, and there were noisy screams from many children who were at risk of being crushed on the plane.

Earlier, two large groups of people who were wearing orange survival jackets appeared from nearby sand dunes and rushed to the sea.

In everything there were 80 or 100 people. But when you are the first “political boat” – smuggling gangs use it to collect passengers from different points along the French coast – it faded 100 meters from the beach, it was clear that it was already full and did not stop choosing anyone else.

A few minutes later, a second boat, almost without passengers, came towards the beach, which was seen by a French coast guard boat in the English channel.

Initially, people were introduced forward into organized groups, holding in hands, and one man brought him out to lead the events.

But as the inflatable boat moved and reversed towards the beach, there was screaming as dozens of people rushed to climb on the water that was at least in the depth of the waist.

Initially, Gendarmes refused to intervene and stop watching from the beach.

One of the officers has repeated a familiar explanation now – that they were prevented from going to water except to save people.

But as the situation is increasingly progressing, the officers were clearly felt at the scene that a line was crossed, and that the people are now in danger, and that there is a brief opportunity to disable the boat in relative safety and while any smuggler – may have resisted – through their attempts to restart the engine.

When a policeman repeatedly fell on the rubber, there were screams and screams of anger and frustration from some of them on board.

A little girl, who was in the middle of the sugar, was crushed at the back of the boat near the engine, where others rushed to the nearby sand.

Moments later, the boat was dragged on the beach by the police where the migrants began collecting the things they brought down on the beach and then went inside, and the highest sandy paths through the sand dunes towards the nearest village and riding busy to the migrant camps in the north.