French are giving boat migrants lifejackets & escorting them cross Channel, fisherman claims

FRENCH authorities escort migrant boats to British waters and give them life jackets, a fisherman has claimed.

The journey across the Channel is the safest it has ever been as the migrants are also picked up once in the UK, Matt Coker says.

Fisherman Matt Coker says the journey across the Channel is the safest it has ever been

The fisherman, who owns Coker Seafishing, told Times Radio: “The French are giving them life jackets, I suppose to try and avoid another tragedy.

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