Contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. - Watch: BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' ...

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

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

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 ...

Migrant crossings from France to Britain are surging, prompting new proposed measures allowing French police to intercept ...

BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' heading to UK 1 day ago Andrew Harding BBC correspondent ...

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

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

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

To claim asylum in the UK, a person must be physically in the UK. There is no visa to travel to the UK to make an asylum ...

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