France: Calais mayor says UK has ‘declared maritime war’ by stopping illegal Muslim boat migrants

By CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, JIHAD WATCH

Reminder: Calais became known as the “Calais jungle” and for good reason: it became a violent no-go zone when it was invaded by Muslim migrants. This was the scene:

Marauding gangs attempted to storm the motorway leading to the port as the crisis in the town spirals out of control….Refugees lit fires and barricaded the road as they tried to ambush traffic heading to the ferry terminal. The chaos forced traffic to a standstill for over an hour as heavily armed officers desperately battled to restore order.

The violence became a threat to truckers passing through, as well as to tourists. In response, France made the decision to build a  “Trump-style” wall to keep illegal Muslim migrants from crossing into Britain from Calais.

But now the France-Britain friendship has taken a bad turn. Tensions between France and the UK are building rapidly ever since the French were caught red handed escorting illegal migrant boats from France across the English Channel into the UK. France then demanded $39,000,000 from the UK to take their own illegal migrants back. All this took place while thousands of illegals – some with coronavirus — continued almost daily to invade the UK. The influx is so unsustainable that Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called for a declaration of a national emergency.

So while France tries to palm off its own Muslim migrant conundrum onto the UK, Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart throws a temper tantrum right “after British immigration minister Chris Philp travelled to Paris to try to secure a deal that would see migrants immediately returned to France.”

“The British themselves have created this hot air by not reviewing their own reception systems and are content to hand out lessons and by subjecting the people of Calais to this situation for too long,” Bouchart pronounced.

Note that Bouchart takes no responsibility for France not reviewing its own “reception systems,” either. Rather than deal with this issue with prudent border controls, both French and British officials’ fear of being called “Islamophobic” and “racist” takes priority.

“Calais Mayor: Stopping Illegal Boat Migrants Is Declaration of ‘Maritime War,’” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, August 12, 2020:

The Mayor of Calais claimed that Britain has “declared maritime war” by floating the idea of sending the Royal Navy to the English Channel to prevent further waves of illegal boat migrants from reaching British shores from France.

The outburst from Mayor Natacha Bouchart came one day after British immigration minister Chris Philp travelled to Paris to try to secure a deal that would see migrants immediately returned to France.

“The British themselves have created this hot air by not reviewing their own reception systems and are content to hand out lessons and by subjecting the people of Calais to this situation for too long,” Bouchart pronounced.

“It is a declaration of maritime war,” she claimed in comments reported by The Sun.

“Here, we are hostile to it [the Royal Navy]. Rather than accept migrants who would work in the black market, Boris Johnson would do better than to teach us lessons, would be better to create better laws to accept people in his own country,” the mayor fumed.

“Technically I don’t even know how they would do [it], and I think the [French] government would oppose it,” she said, while saying that the row over illegal migrants has been used to damage the “image” and economy of France.

The leader of the city that is home to one of the most notorious migrant camps in France — which earned the moniker of the ‘Calais Jungle’ — called upon the British government to “take responsibility”. She said the British should establish “reception centres” for asylum seekers on the French side of the Channel, to expedite the asylum process.

France has so far been largely unwilling to prevent migrants from setting sail to Britain. The French Navy has gone as far as to assist migrant vessels into British territorial waters, where they are picked up by UK Border Force and brought ashore to be processed by immigration officials.

The French government has reportedly demanded that the British government pay an additional £30 million in exchange for France better patrolling the route, and immediately returning migrants to Dunkirk in northern France. The payment would be in addition to the £100 million sent to the French since 2015.

To date, there have been over 4,100 illegal migrants recorded to have made the journey across the Channel, ultimately reaching Britain. However, as the figure only reflects those migrants who are caught and the Home Office no longer counts migrants who are allegedly under the age of 18 in the official toll, the true number is likely higher.

A migrant charity worker in France told The Sun: “We’ve spoken to people intercepted en route to the UK who have told us how babies and infants are getting into dinghies for free. Younger children and teenagers are being allowed on for just a few hundred pounds a time.”….