A gendarme was injured this Saturday morning with a stab in the hand during an intervention on a beach in Pas-de-Calais intended to prevent a group of migrants from setting sail for England, a- we learned from the gendarmerie.
On Saturday around 7:20 a.m., in Oye-Plage, this gendarme received a stab in the hand as he "
tried to burst the boat
" in which a group of around sixty migrants wanted to attempt the crossing of the Channel, a declared to AFP the commander of the gendarmerie group of Pas-de-Calais, General Frantz Tavart.
The gendarme, whose artery was affected, had to be operated on, he said.
The gendarmerie tries to identify the author of the blow among the sixty migrants, mostly men but also women and children.