Small boat migrants have been making pretend Mayday calls to French emergency crews, forcing them to be escorted to UK waters.
The brand new tactic entails pretending they’re liable to drowning in dinghies and phoning for assist.
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The French Navy and coast guard rescue the Channel crossers earlier than realising there isn’t a emergency.
British Border Drive vessels are then deployed to convey them to Dover.
French officers have known as the strategy utilized by the migrants "abusive"; nevertheless, they don’t have any alternative however to help them.
Gerard Barron, of the French Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer, stated: "This new technique is to ask the individuals on the small boat to name for assist and say they’re in bother when they aren’t.
"The smugglers inform the migrants, 'Like that, you’ll be escorted'. While you arrive there, the boat has nothing incorrect. What they need is to be accompanied to British waters."
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