People smugglers launch migrant boats into Channel just 48 hours after Labour confirmed £662m French deal

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People smugglers launch migrant boats into Channel just 48 hours after Labour confirmed £662m French deal.

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Migrant boats have been launched into the English Channel just 48 hours after the signing of a new £662million Anglo-French security deal, GB News can reveal.

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In an apparent effort to evade French law enforcement, criminal gangs launched boats some 70 miles south of the area around Dunkirk, where the bulk of migrant activity has taken place in recent months.It is yet another shift in tactics by the people smugglers as they attempt to outsmart beach patrols.Exactly a week ago, more than 250 migrants left beaches along the Belgian coast TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say It was the biggest single day of illegal migrant activity on Belgium's beaches since the small boats crisis began.A week on, that activity has shifted much further south, as the gangs and their migrant passengers continue to play cat and mouse with authorities.Just after 9am today, a migrant boat was spotted leaving a beach near Hardelot, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer.Gangs have used these more southerly beaches in the past...

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