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France will reward hundreds of migrant frontline workers in the fight against Covid-19 by granting them citizenship. The interior ministry invited people who ‘actively contributed’ to the fight against coronavirus to apply for fast-track naturalisation in September. Of the nearly 3,000 people who responded, 74 had already obtained citizenship and 693 more were in the … Read more
Two migrants are escaping the UK’s first migrant camp at an army barracks in Kent every week, it has been revealed. Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent was turned into an ‘assessment and dispersal facility’ for migrants, with 400 arriving in September at the height of the migrant crisis, which has seen thousands cross the Channel … Read more
French authorities are refusing to intercept migrant boats heading for Britain once they are in the English Channel, despite receiving millions of pounds of UK taxpayers cash to cut off the route, a minister admitted today. Chris Philp admitted that a £28million deal signed with Paris at the weekend would not affect migrants who manage … Read more
Britain and France have signed an historic agreement to tackle the number of migrants crossing the English Channel each year. Home Secretary Priti Patel and her French counterpart Gerald Darmanin said they wanted to make the route unviable after more than 8,000 migrants crossed this year. They agreed to double the number of French police … Read more
A lorry driver accused of being a member of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants has told jurors he only agreed to move cigarettes ‘for a bit of extra cash’. Christopher Kennedy, 24, of Keady, County Armagh, allegedly picked up two trailer-loads of people from Purfleet in Essex, transported from Zeebrugge in … Read more
French police forcibly clear huge Paris migrant camp where more than 2,000 people lived shoulder-to-shoulder in tents under motorway overpass Migrants, most them men from Middle East and Africa, set fire to their camp under the A1 in Saint-Denis Riot police were dispatched to prepare the migrants ahead of removal by 70 buses this morning … Read more
An Afghan man has been charged with endangering his son’s life after the six-year-old died while trying to reach the Greek island of Samos by boat. The 25-year-old father faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of the charge, which one NGO described as a ‘direct attack on the right to seek … Read more
The moment a migrant was loaded into a tanker by French people smuggling gang that got 1,000 people into UK illegally before being raided by police Gang – called the Pierrefitte connection – made 3million euros smuggling people Police have watched them for the past 12 months in a surveillance operation Earlier this month, French … Read more
‘Where is my baby?’: Migrant mother screams as she searches for her six-month-old boy who later died after being pulled from the water in the Mediterranean ‘Did you see my baby? I lose my baby! Why me? Where is my baby?’ Mother says Baby Joseph was pulled from the Mediterranean but died aboard rescue vessel He … Read more
A Czech migrant who terrified dog walkers by shooting at birds with an air rifle while he crouched in bushes at a public park has avoided jail after saying its a harmless hobby in his home country. Armed police swooped on Springwater Park in Radcliffe, near Bury, after a dogwalker spotted Pavel Jakes shooting at … Read more