France has sent officers into the water to slash and deflate boats as it weighs up new approaches to stem the tide of migrant crossings
Nicolas Laroye, a veteran of France’s border police, spent more than a decade patrolling the coast around Dunkirk in search of migrants. Now he shares the frustration of colleagues who have taken over what has become a near impossible task.
“Of course we want to stop the migrants,” he said, as we sat in a cafe. “But we know that they will keep trying and trying and that in the end they will all get through.”
I doubt they care much that the migrants are leaving France.
