FRENCH cops have finally been captured tackling small boats in the water… while a BBC camera crew were conveniently on hand ...

Downing Street has hailed the 'toughening' of tactics by French police in the war on small boats as footage emerged of officers slashing a migrant boat packed with migrants.

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

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 ...