Oye-Plage (Pas-de-Calais)
At the entrance to the park, sleeping bags, clothes, plastic bottles, backpacks and even a jar of sunscreen. Obviously abandoned. A group of migrants have crossed over here to prepare for the crossinganalyzes Oath Officer Cyril Pennett. It’s a waiting room the smugglers use often.”
It is 4 o’clock in the morning. Since the beginning of the night, the gendarmes of the Oye-Plage brigade, located 10 km east of Calais, have been patrolling. They are on a good track and are trying to confirm it with their thermal camera drone. But nothing. However, they are sure that the group will try to cross from the nearby beach. It is around 20°C, there is no wind, the sea is flat. Ideal conditions to reach England by inflatable motorboat.
Three groups of two gendarmes split up to cross the area. Military uniform, flashlight in hand, they speed up their step. They know that…
Source: Le Figaro
