According to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, this device will be able to “help the French, Dutch and Belgian police forces day and night” working in the Channel.
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The European border agency Frontex will deploy a plane from 1 December to help fight against migratory traffic in the Channel, announced Sunday (November 28) the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, at the end of a European meeting in Calais (Pas-de-Calais).
This device “European will, day and night, be able to help the French, Dutch and Belgian police”, clarified Gérald Darmanin, also reaffirming the will of Paris to “work” with “his British friends”.
In a joint statement, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and France agreed to “strengthen their operational cooperation” against trafficking but also “to improve joint cooperation with the UK”.
Gérald Darmanin had disinvited his British counterpart, Priti Patel, in response to a letter published Thursday evening on Twitter by Boris Johnson, asking Paris to take back migrants arriving from France in Great Britain.
On the German side, Stephan Mayer, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, judged “urgent” adoption of‘”an agreement between the European Union and Great Britain” on migration, arguing for a “post-Dublin agreement between the European Union and Great Britain”.