Evidence shared exclusively with ITV News shows that the large sums of government money poured into policing small boat crossings on the French side of the Channel, are failing to control the problem.
British-funded French police have been filmed watching as migrants board small boats to illegally cross the English Channel , an ITV News investigation can reveal. This occurred despite a £500m investment from the UK government as part of a three-year agreement with France , which is supposed to help them stop these crossings. ITV News witnessed this hardware, which is paid for by Britain, being actively used by the French as they let the migrants pass them by.
The boat they boarded was already on its way to the UK and appeared full when it performed an audacious U-turn and headed back towards the beach where police were standing. Brazenly, the boat was able to pick up these additional passengers, seemingly unconcerned by the police presence. The dinghy became dangerously overloaded, with one French officer heard giving an estimate of 100 people in total onboard by the time it left France
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