French Police Film Migrants on Their Phones – But Do Nothing to Stop Them
20th September 2025
French police filmed migrants on their phones but did nothing to stop them leaving the beaches as up to 900 reached the UK on Friday.
After nine days of bad weather stopped any boats crossing, the people-smuggling gangs took advantage of calmer seas to dispatch up to 10 dinghies crammed with hundreds of migrants.
The exodus came as two more Channel migrants – an Eritrean man and an Iranian man – were deported to France on Air France passenger flights on Friday. That brings the total removed under Sir Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal to three this week, although at least five have been pulled off flights after late legal appeals.