French Interior Minister Darmanin spoke at a press conference on Sunday, saying that illegal migrants were making attempts to blackmail French authorities into letting them cross the English Channel.
“…the migrants were using babies and threatening to throw them into the water a few feet away, or on an engine, if [the French police] came to arrest them,” Darmanin said, the European Union-funded news website InfoMigrants reports.
“As Minister of the Interior, I repeat, the instruction is not to intervene. We cannot endanger the lives of children, of old people who are sometimes thrown into the sea. This is an observation that the French police have unfortunately been making for many years,” Darmanin said.
In 2020 it was claimed in the UK establishment media that the French found themselves unable to interdict migrants at sea because “When rigid-hulled inflatable dinghies are approached by French patrol vessels, the migrants threaten to jump overboard or throw their children into the water to prevent officials from helping them.”
This meant “The French have little option but to back off and shadow the boats until they are close to a UK Border Force vessel”, it was alleged.
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