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Nicholas Cecil

Armed French police to get new powers at Dover to enforce EU e-border scheme with Brits fingerprinted

Armed French police are to be given new powers at Dover to enforce the European Union’s new e-border system.

They will be allowed to carry their weapons along a 1.5 mile-long stretch of the A20 to reach a new check zone in the western docks.

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