Watch video of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel in a rare and unusual intervention, which police have ...

The BBC's Andrew Harding saw French gendarmes using knives to slash an inflatable small boat, packed with men, women and ...

NEARLY four times as many small-boat migrants made it to Britain in one recent week than the French ­managed to stop, it ...

French police usually follow strict rules that bar them from going into the sea in case they put lives at risk.

Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast beach in northern France, stopping every few hundred metres to ...

French police have punctured Channel migrants’ boats at sea for the first time in a change of tactics backed by Yvette Cooper ...

FRENCH cops have finally been captured tackling small boats in the water… while a BBC camera crew were conveniently on hand ...

French police have waded into shallow waters off a beach south of Boulogne and used knives to slash an inflatable small boat – packed with men, women and children – that was wallowing, dangerously, in ...

French police have used new tactics to stop small boats setting off to cross the Channel, slashing a boat while it was in ...

The BBC broadcast footage of officers damaging the vessel, full of people, as it was about to set off, with PM Keir Starmer’s ...