The army announced on Sunday the "
immediate
" launch of an investigation after a military vehicle was filmed in the process of increasing the skids in front of a migrant camp in northern France ... only to run aground in a rut.
Photos and videos from the event were posted by photojournalist Louis Witter on his Twitter account.
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In Calais, a military vehicle of Vigipirate (an anti-terrorist device,
Editor's note
) came this morning to drift and
spurts
on one of the exile camps in the city, before
getting stuck," says- does it in a fairly long
thread
.
End of race bogged down
We see a brown 4X4, whose windshield is adorned with a "
Vigipirate mission traffic
" banner
and which bears a military license plate, making arabesques in reverse in a muddy field located "
on a vacant lot at the exit from Calais
”, according to the journalist.
In the background, a tent camp, in which illegals live.
Some whistle the show.
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“
All that to finish his race mired in the mud of the camp.
The soldiers got out of the vehicle with their weapons, waiting for someone to help them.
Before calling a bigger truck they asked, a little pissed off, + You don't have shovels? +
”, Continues the photojournalist.
The vehicle, stuck halfway through the door, was finally cleared by the military ... helped by migrants, he said.
"
Exiled people are digging in flip-flops in the mud to get the car out of there while the police (also present, Editor's note) do not move an inch,
" he was still sorry.
In other videos, he had shown the brown SUV speeding through a puddle, causing showers of water in its path.
An investigation of the command "triggered"
“
Unacceptable scene.
A command investigation is triggered immediately,
”reacted the army on his Twitter account.
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More and more Brits are retweeting these videos, because what happens in Calais is also with their money.
A delirium,
”concluded Louis Witter.
Britain has paid France hundreds of millions of euros over the past decade to prevent illegal arrivals from France.
The multiplication of crossings in recent months has caused serious tensions between London and Paris.
