Immigration: London and Paris want to stop the "small boats"

Hollywood physique, uniform plastered with medals, including those of Kosovo and Iraq, Dan O'Mahoney is he the man for the job faced with the migrant crisis in the Channel? The British government on Sunday charged this former Royal Marines, assigned for a time to the British National Crime Agency, to make illegal Channel crossings "impracticable" . Since 2019, he has been the boss of the United Kingdom Inter-Service Maritime Safety Center.

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This Monday, the British Ministry of Defense already welcomed on Twitter the sending of an Atlas surveillance plane to the area, obviously to spot small craft. His flight itinerary, retraced by the English journalist blogger Eliot Higgins, draws, along the English coasts, a large bow tie whose ends come to flirt with the coasts of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais.

Returning an inflatable boat loaded with men, women and children to its starting point is unthinkable in the Mediterranean, but, oddly enough, this does not seem to pose any problem in the English Channel.

In O'Mahoney's roadmap, the British Home Office indicates that this high-ranking official "will work closely with the French

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