A fresh row has broken out over the Channel migrant crisis after a UK Border Force vessel sailed into French waters to pick up asylum seekers, even though the French Navy was right there and didn’t step in.
It happened on Tuesday morning when a dinghy carrying dozens of people broke down around half a mile inside French territory. Witnesses say the boat was clearly in trouble – possibly with deflating tubes – and some on board were signalling distress. Under the rules between the UK and France, it should have been down to the French to handle it. But instead, the UK’s Border Force Ranger moved in and carried out the rescue, reported the Express.
