STORY: One day in early July, more than 100 migrants set off from the French coast for the UK.Others didn’t manage to climb ...

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

Such an unusual intervention in the English Channel could be a sign that French police are changing their tactics.

Across the English Channel, the U.K.'s white cliffs beckon. On fine days, men and women with children in their arms and ...

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

France's northern coast has long been fortified against invasion, with Nazi bunkers in World War II and pre-French Revolution ...

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 ...

BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' heading to UK 2 days ago Andrew Harding BBC correspondent ...

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

We counted 18 French gendarmes watching them from the shore, declining to intervene. An inflatable taxi boat, operated by a smuggling gang, had just arrived by sea and now circled repeatedly.

French police may be allowed to intercept boats offshore Record numbers of migrants have crossed the Channel this year Migrants determined to cross despite tougher measures CALAIS, France, July 4 ...

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