Calais (Pas-de-Calais)
Strengthening the anti-smugglers arsenal around Calais is the objective of the Terminus project.
The State wants to develop a network of video surveillance cameras located at strategic points on the coast of Pas-de-Calais.
Most often near beaches and dunes, starting points for “small boats” loaded with migrants who want to cross the Channel.
Terminus is financed by British funds from the Treaty of Sandhurst, concluded in 2018 between France and the United Kingdom to strengthen their cooperation against migratory trafficking.
Twenty municipalities have volunteered to install cameras.
Marck-en-Calaisis, just next to Calais, should for example have about fifteen.
“The “small boats” when they are in the water, it's too late,
explains Pierre-Henri Dumont, LR deputy and municipal councilor of this city of 100,000 inhabitants.
The smugglers must be blocked on the ground.
Cameras can help intercept them upstream.”
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