Migrants trying to illegally enter the UK on small boats have broken out into violence as they're caught desperately attacking each other for a space on board.
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they → try → board
Extraordinary footage in France shows utter mayhem as they throw punches at one another in a desperate bid to cram onto the dinghy.
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they → show → dinghy
The small boat is seen dipping into the water and nearly capsizing as enraged migrants fight each other for a spot.
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migrants → see → spot
Dozens can be seen hopelessly trying to throw themselves in, toppling onto others already inside – but they are fought off by furious passengers with forceful blows to the head.
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they → see → head
It comes as hundreds of migrants have been seen desperately trying to cram themselves and their families into dinghies crossing into Britain as people smugglers run for cover and the number of arrivals tripled in a day.
New figures have shown another 671 arrived on nine boats yesterday, up from 263 on three boats on Thursday.
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671 → come → Thursday
The numbers reveal that nearly 1,000 (934) illegal migrants in 12 boats crossed the English Channel in just two days after a three-week pause in arrivals.
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migrants → reveal → arrivals
Images show the desperation on their faces as they scramble into the over-packed inflatable boats trying to make it across the border from France to Dover.
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they → show → Dover
Migrants trying to illegally enter the UK on small boats have broken out into violence as they're caught desperately attacking each other for a space on board
A small boat in France is seen dipping into the water and nearly capsizing as enraged migrants fight each other for a space
Dozens can be seen desperately toppling onto others already inside but are fought off
Dozens are tightly packed shoulder to shoulder in the boats, wearing bright orange life jackets while others are wrapped in winter coats and hats as they battle the harsh temperatures.
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they → try → temperatures
Others waded through knee-deep sea water battling waves attempting to secure a place on the dinghies and join the incredibly chaotic crossings.
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Others → wad → crossings
Some are even seen holding their children.
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Some → see → children
Since January, thousands of child migrants have made the 21-mile crossing, with no fewer than 2,182 making the trip entirely alone – more than 200 a month – according to figures released to the Daily Mail by Kent County Council this week.
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2,182 → make → Council
A photographer at the port in France chased a people smuggler across the beach, trying and failing to get the gendarmes to arrest him.
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gendarmes → chase → him
Flashing police cars were present at the scene as dozens of migrants raced across the sand trying to flee a possible arrest.
The photographer wrote on X: 'I just identified and chased a people smuggler from the boat onto the beach with the gendarmes, and they had opportunity to arrest him and they did not.
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they → flash → him
I got so close to him while running.
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I → get → him
I could’ve tackled.'
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I → tackle → ?
The imagery and video show migrants are prepared to go to extreme lengths to get a spot on the perilous journey.
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migrants → show → journey
On Friday, a knife-wielding migrant boarded a boat bound for Britain after threatening a man with the weapon and telling him, 'I will kill you.'
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I → wield → you
Migrants have been caught desperately trying to cram themselves and their families into small boats crossing into the UK
Images show the desperation on their faces as they scramble into the over-packed inflatable boats trying to make it across the border from France to Dover
Migrants arrived at Dover on Friday, whole some arrived back on a Dungeness Lifeboat
Footage shows dozens of migrants climbing into a dinghy in Hardelot-Plage, northern France, with an argument breaking out between a man already on board and another trying to get on.
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argument → catch → board
The confrontation escalates when the migrant in the water gets out a knife and lunges towards the man on the boat in an attempt to threaten him.
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migrant → escalate → him
'I will kill you,' he is heard saying as he waves the weapon in the air, while one onlooker attempts to fend him off.
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onlooker → kill → him
A British man at the scene is heard alerting the coastguard that the man is armed.
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man → hear → coastguard
Before the knifeman could reach his target, he appears to drop the weapon into the water.
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he → reach → water
Just moments later, the armed man appears to board the boat but it is unclear whether he reached Britain.
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he → appear → Britain
The incident follows a series of violent incidents involving migrants attempting to cross the Channel.
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incident → follow → Channel
In July, French police launched an investigation after the body of a migrant was found on a beach in Calais.
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body → launch → Calais
The imagery and video show migrants are prepared to go to extreme lengths to get a spot on the perilous journey
A photographer at the port in France chased a people smuggler across the beach, trying and failing to get the gendarmes to arrest him
New figures reveal that nearly 1,000 (934) illegal migrants in 12 boats crossed the English Channel in just two days after a three-week pause in arrivals
New figures have shown another 671 arrived on nine boats yesterday, up from 263 on three boats on Thursday
People thought to be migrants wade in the water as they attempt to board a small boat off the coast of Hardelot, France
Since January, thousands of child migrants have made the 21-mile crossing, with no fewer than 2,182 making the trip entirely alone
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2,182 → show → trip
Investigators believe those responsible may have fled to Britain on a small boat.
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those → believe → boat
And in August, an Afghan national was found dead on a dinghy in the Channel.
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national → find → Channel
It emerged yesterday that migrants were headed to Britain on a 'custom-made' small boat in the colours of the Kurdish flag, in an apparent reference to the gangs who dominate Channel trafficking.
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who → emerge → trafficking
More than 20 men were filmed on the dinghy off a Belgian beach early on Thursday, watched by police.
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men → film → police
Rather than the usual black PVC plastic, the boat was made in distinctive colours matching the red, white and green 'fesses', or horizontal stripes, and yellow sunburst emblem of the Kurdish flag, adopted in 1946.
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boat → make → 1946
The departure took place at 3am local time from a beach near the border with France.
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departure → take → France
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'Far from smashing the gangs as Labour promised, the Kurdish people smugglers are now openly laughing in the Government’s faces with an illegal immigrant boat decked in their national colours.
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smugglers → say → colours
The coming days are calm seas for a fortnight or so, and hundreds of illegal immigrants are set to flock across the Channel.
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hundreds → come → Channel
The Government's returns deal with France has collapsed and the authorities the other side of the Channel are standing by as illegal immigrants and people smugglers run amok and launch ever larger boats.
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immigrants → collapse → boats
'Shabana Mahmood has failed.'
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Mahmood → fail → ?
A migrant attempting to cross the Channel appeared to threaten a man with a knife
A migrant dinghy, pictured off the Belgian coast early on Thursday morning, was in the distinctive colours of the Kurdish flag
More than 20 men were filmed on the dinghy off a Belgian beach early on Thursday, watched by police
He added: 'The only solution is the Conservative borders plan - leave the European Convention on Human Rights so we can deport all illegal immigrants upon arrival.
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we → attempt → arrival
Then the crossings will stop.
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crossings → stop → ?
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage tweeted: 'The Belgian authorities, like the French, are just standing and watching.
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authorities → reform → French
This boat is even custom-made to match the Kurdish flag.
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boat → make → flag
…and 6 more, not listed.
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