France Threatens to Arrest Britons Who Stop Migrant Crossings
France is threatening to arrest British activists trying to stop illegal migrants leaving French beaches on small boats bound for England. The Telegraph has more.
Sources close to Laurent Nunez, the French Interior Minister, said he wanted to see the Britons arrested for possible obstruction and aggravated violence.
It follows a series of vigilante-style actions by Britons from the Raise the Colours movement, which encourages the widespread public display of flags bearing the Union Flag and St George’s Cross.
Police were called on December 5th when a Raise the Colours group was involved in trying to stop crossings.
There are ongoing tensions between the UK and France over the French delay in adopting more aggressive tactics at sea to prevent the migrants’ dinghies leaving for England.
According to Government figures, 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the Channel – making last year the second highest annual small boat total on record. Some 65,000 migrants have reached the UK across the Channel since Labour came to power in July 2024.
Raise the Colours activists have published videos online of what they describe as “civilian border control” or “Operation Stop the Boats”.
The films show them wading into the sea, shouting at migrants and allegedly slashing small boats and their engines before they can be used for Channel crossings.
The group claims that it has been forced to take matters into its own hands because the French and British authorities are failing to take the tough action needed to stop the boats.
However, the activists now face arrest, with senior French politicians said to be furious at the unauthorised and potentially illegal actions.
A source close to Mr Nunez told La Voix du Nord that he “demanded that the members of these groups be able to be identified, arrested in case of action and that measures of obstruction be considered”.
According to the newspaper, the prefecture in the Calais region said it had responded to the Britons’ actions by taking “follow-up and coordination measures at different levels: local, zonal and national”. However, it did not specify the details for security reasons.
However, ministerial sources indicated that the French Government was not satisfied that it was being effective in tackling the threat.
“We can’t see anything coming. There is a lack of action by the authorities, how is it that these people return so easily to the coast?” the source added.
The public prosecutor’s office of Boulogne indicated that prosecutions were being considered.
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They aren’t migrants, they’re fucking illegals. Intentionally avoiding the legal process presumably to remain anonymous.
That’s not to say that legal migration is much better, but these men are an invasion force.
I had made a resolution to abstain from profanity in my comments, this year.
Like you, I have failed already… and it’s only the fucking third!
I’ve already had a comment removed because of the implied profanity…
I do intend to try to rein in my fiercer emotions when commenting but it’s not always easy!
I know—-But I don’t blame the migrants so much as the parasite wimp politicians that allow them to flood in here and expect us all to house and feed them.
Well of course they will. Can’t stop the taxis delivering the ‘doctors and engineers’ that the EU think we need to have our fair share of can we. And think of the grifters who would be out of pocket.
The traffickers are we know well organised mafia type organisation and that means they will certainly have bought enough of the local administration to enable a quiet life.
As in England I assume there is a deep gulf between what central govt and ministers say or want or order, and what actually happens on the ground filtered through a million layers of complacent jobsworths and paid off officials
And the will to act for the French government will be less than visceral- the last thing they want is for these migrants to stay in france.
Starmer needs to use the presence of these vigilantes in france as leverage to encourager to raise their jeu but you can be damn’ sure he won’t because he’s a clown, a charlatan a coward and politically at any rate, a total imbecile.
plus, he basically cannot stand the English especially the working classes and especially patriots. They are aliens to him, outside his comfort zone.
More based common sense from Jim. An excerpt; ”France is now threatening to arrest Britons who try to stop migrant boats leaving its beaches. Smugglers operate in plain sight, dinghies launch at will, and tens of thousands cross – yet the coercive power of the state is directed not at the crime, but at those exposing its own refusal to act. Authority has been inverted. Let’s be clear at the outset. Civilian action on a foreign shore is not a solution. It is unsafe, unlawful, and unsustainable. But it is not the cause of this crisis. It is the symptom. And a government that spends its energy criminalising symptoms while tolerating causes has already abdicated. France could stop these crossings tomorrow if it chose to. Instead, French police unions cite “risk to life” to block interdiction, while launches continue in full view. The same risk is apparently no obstacle when boats are allowed to depart, overloaded and unseaworthy. That contradiction tells you everything you need to know. What angers Paris is not danger, nor illegality. It is embarrassment. Britons on French beaches puncture the performance. They expose a vacuum of will that polite communiqués cannot hide. So the state moves… Read more »
Immigration is a GLOBALIST RACKET and a FREE FOR ALL. —-The Political Class all over the EU and UK have facilitated what can only be described as an INVASION.
Open borders is part of the WEF Agenda, just like the rest of Starmer’s aims ‘policies’ nobody voted for (net zero, redistribution of wealth, a universal income, censorship of wrongthink etc etc).
Why would France want to stop the boats?
Exactly
There was surprise at the RN co-leader offering to help – I know, most ungallic – but common sense says it would end a lot of trouble for the French coastal communities who have to suffer this scum on their doorstep if the boats were stopped.
Europhiles will be keen to get them out of the EU.
French central government won’t care much about coastal communities. They will just want to get rid of the problem people. They’ll try to stop more coming in to France and be keen to get more out – especially to the UK.
Local government in the north coastal region will probably want to deter more would-be migrants coming into their area but know that if they get delayed in the area the numbers will just build up until something really bad happens.
Until and unless they start playing hardball with the ECHR they’ll just be keen to offload onto the UK.
Good point
France should want to stop the boats, to avoid the migrant camps near Calais.
In the short term stopping the boats will increase the number of people in the migrant camps near the north coast. Only if they can defeat the EU and ECHR demands to accommodate the economic migrants can they stop people arriving to try their luck. In a way, I agree with them, the UK is a soft touch which makes us an attractive goal.
Christ, this is dire. Do the NHS doctors who overtly support terrorist organizations and hate Jews get struck off? ”Serious misconduct” is when you harm a patient or pilfer some Tramadol, not share some bloody posts on social media; ”AWARD-WINNING NHS NURSE WITH 40 YEARS SERVICE STRUCK OFF FOR SHARING ANTI-IMMIGRATION POSTS – FREE SPEECH CRUSHED BY THOUGHT POLICE! Roberta Batchelor, a dedicated ward manager who started as a cleaner, won Birmingham’s ‘pride of nursing’ award, and even starred in hospital videos celebrating diversity, has been permanently banned from the profession. Her crime? Sharing Facebook posts voicing fears millions share: migrants arriving by boat getting “everything” while homeless vets get nothing; tax money protecting mosques; a Bible verse warning foreigners could become “rulers”; and stark contrasts in border security. The Nursing and Midwifery Council branded it “serious misconduct” – deep-seated attitudes that “undermine public confidence” – and struck her off despite her apology, mixed-race family, and plea to leave voluntarily. This isn’t about professionalism – it’s ideological purging: Silence frontline heroes who dare question mass immigration and two-tier policing! Ordinary Brits arrested daily for “wrongthink” online – now even decorated nurses gagged for expressing legitimate concerns! Free speech is dying… Read more »
And doctors conspire against the taxpayers who fund their salaries in refusing to charge foreigners for treatment by the NHS instead of demanding a credit card up front.
We helped the French gain independence against Nazi tyranny over 80 years ago. That was at our expense in blood and treasure. Now France is encouraging murderous Islamic tyranny to flood our shores. Who would do such a thing to a neighbour and friend?
They aren’t encouraging them, they’re happy to let them leave. Where they go is none of France’s business. It’s up to the UK to protect its own borders, FFS.
This is why supranational organisations like the EU are total crap.
Each country must be responsible for its own affairs, its own security, etc.
Why would you want to depend on a foreign country for the security of your own? It makes no sense. Fix the rot within, stop blaming a foreign country.
These fighting age males would not be wanting to get to Britain in the first place, were it not for the actions of the British authorities.
The French have never been our ‘friends’.
Agincourt and Waterloo still rankle, but de Gaulle’s post war hissy fit about our bailing them out, for a second time still drives their attitude towards us.
That and the fact that a large number were
collaborators, sorry, in the Maquis.We only fought the Germans in France to get to Germany.
To be fair, I can think of no reason at all why the French might want to keep these people.
By the time they get to Calais, the wheat has already been sorted from the chaff… would anyone really be surprised to discover the French state was actually the criminal gang behind the boats?
Dear Macron,
We are expecting a Refund Cheque from you for the £471 MILLION POUNDS we gave you to Stop the Boats. Tout de suite.
Otherwise, we’ll send the Bailiffs round to your Presidential Elysee Palace, accompanied by a large convoy of Removal Vans. If you haven’t enough furniture there to cover the Refund Cost, we’ll send more vans to Versailles, with Delboy & Rodney to remove the chandeliers.
Yours sincerely,
The British Taxpayers
Spot on.
Where has the money gone? It’s not stopped the migrants one little bit – so what was it used for. Has some of it been stolen by the bureaucrats? We need an audit ASAP.
In March 2023 from a report by CNN:
“The United Kingdom said on Friday it would pay $576 million over the next three years as part of a deal with France to combat illegal immigration across the English Channel.
The deal was announced during a joint summit between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday.
The money will finance a new detention center for migrants in France and the deployment of 500 French security and support agents “to enable the fastest detection of attempted crossings” by small boats, a joint statement from the two countries said.”
Did Sunak attend the same negotiating classes as 2 Tier?
Interesting about that “new detention centre in France” they promised to build nearly 3 years ago with our money, while they’ve been trousering the cash instead!
Indeed. We’re being ripped off, yet again.
The migrants are not our responsibility. France let them into France so France can repatriate them.
There are two points which are quite clear, and have been for some time.
Starmer (and the Tories before him) is being played for the fool he is by shelling out hundreds of millions to his ‘friend’ Macron who must be laughing in his champagne at the gullibility of British politicians. These incomers are supposedly seeking asylum. They have come to the right place – the UK Lunatic Asylum.
Are the saboteurs jeopardising their kickbacks from the smugglers?
Where can I donate to their legal fund?
The EU’s open borders are a huge part of the boats problem – for us.