Two men have been sent to prison for being recorded while participating in an assault on French police officers who were attempting to prevent migrants from crossing the Channel.
Video from police body cameras shows a bunch of people throwing stones and scaring the police on a beach near Calais in June.
Two men named Salih Abdullah and Ahmed Khater, aged 33 and 25 respectively, were arrested when they reached Dover. They confessed that they had tried to come to the UK without permission.
They each got sent to jail for 14 months and 12 months.
Abdullah, from Iraq, and Khater, from Sudan, were with a group of 51 people who were going to get on a small boat. However, the police in Oye Plage near Calais found them before they could board the boat, according to the Home Office.
Tension is going up.
Some migrants threw rocks at the French officers and threatened them with sticks before they got on a boat to go to the UK.
Abdullah and Khater were caught on camera by the police and were arrested as soon as they reached Dover.
The couple admitted that they tried to enter the UK without permission and appeared in court on June 19th. They were then sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday.
Charlie Eastaugh, who is in charge of international operations for the Small Boats Operational Command at the Home Office, stated that there is growing tension on French beaches. This is because law enforcement has been successful in stopping this organized criminal activity.
This situation shows how our French colleagues do difficult and brave work, even when things are very hard.
We will keep working together with them to stop the criminal gangs who are responsible for these dangerous border crossings, to keep our borders safe and save lives.
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Channel migrants imprisoned following violence on small boat trip
