{"id":80375,"date":"2026-08-20T21:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80375\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:31:33","slug":"moment-french-police-slash-migrant-taxi-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80375\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment French police slash migrant \u2018taxi boat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Moment French police slash migrant \u2018taxi boat\u2019\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D7wYvbIbRVw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMoment French police slash migrant \u2018taxi boat\u2019<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrench police have boarded 12 migrant \u201ctaxi boats\u201d in their first interceptions at sea since the UK signed a new \u00a3662m deal to curb Channel crossings.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure by the Home Office came as officials also released footage of police officers using Pava spray to disperse migrants trying to launch their boat from the beach, before deflating the dinghy by slashing it with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>The footage showed officers being attacked by the migrants, who threw sand and rocks at them while trying, unsuccessfully, to launch the dinghy from the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/08\/20\/french-police-intercept-migrant-taxi-boats-at-sea\/<\/p>\n<p>#smallboats #channel #news<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to the Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moment French police slash migrant \u2018taxi boat\u2019 French police have boarded 12 migrant \u201ctaxi boats\u201d in their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[65722,65723,44105,65724,29846,18412,65725,65726,2986,8354,2954,5576,55450,4483,53396,4484,2327,31,338,339,340,337,341,235],"class_list":["post-80375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-afghan-migrants","tag-boat-full-of-migrants","tag-british-transport-police","tag-calais-migrant-camps","tag-calais-migrants","tag-france-migration","tag-france-uk-migration","tag-french-migration","tag-french-police","tag-illegal-migrants","tag-met-police","tag-migrant","tag-migrant-boat","tag-migrant-boats","tag-migrant-camp","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-uk-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117130022433394632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}