Firefighters try to get migrants to come down from a ferry funnel on March 3, 2019 in the northern French port of Calais. Photo: AFP Firefighters try to get migrants to come down from a ferry funnel on March 3, 2019 in the northern French port of Calais. Photo: AFP
Firefighters try to get migrants to come down from a ferry funnel on March 3, 2019 in the northern French port of Calais. Photo: AFP
World /  Europe

Migrants scramble onto cross-channel ferry to Britain, sparking French police sweep

  • Harbour master baffled how so many migrants could break into port, suggesting the operation may have been linked to people smugglers

Topic |   Europe’s refugee crisis
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 11:55pm, 3 Mar, 2019

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Firefighters try to get migrants to come down from a ferry funnel on March 3, 2019 in the northern French port of Calais. Photo: AFP Firefighters try to get migrants to come down from a ferry funnel on March 3, 2019 in the northern French port of Calais. Photo: AFP
Firefighters try to get migrants to come down from a ferry funnel on March 3, 2019 in the northern French port of Calais. Photo: AFP
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