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'I will kill you': Knifeman threatens migrants on a dinghy in France, then climbs aboard as it heads for Britain

A migrant pulls a large knife on a smuggler boat bound for Britain, in a picture posted on X by The Nowhere Photographer, as a British man at the scene was heard alerting the coastguard that the knifeman was armed.
A migrant pulls a large knife on a smuggler boat bound for Britain, in a picture posted on X by The Nowhere Photographer, as a British man at the scene was heard alerting the coastguard that the knifeman was armed.

Footage shot at Hardelot-Plage in northern France shows the knifeman wading waist-deep before lunging at a man already aboard, dropping the blade into the sea seconds later and then successfully climbing onto the vessel as it sailed for Britain. A British bystander at the scene is heard alerting the coastguard that the man was armed.

The incident came as 263 migrants arrived in Dover on Thursday, ending a three-week hiatus caused by high seas.

One boat crossing from Belgium was painted in the red, white and green of the Kurdish flag — with Nigel Farage warning gangs are now branding their boats openly.

The 2026 Channel total stands at 21,198 arrivals, down 43% on the same point last year.

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