An uncontrolled slip. Soldiers on a vigipirate mission were filmed, Sunday, November 19, doing a rodeo with their car near a migrant camp in Calais (Pas-de-Calais).
After several skids in the mud, the vehicle ended up getting stuck, prompting the intervention of an army truck and other soldiers. They were finally able to get him out of the rut, with the help of migrants present there. The entire scene was filmed by photographer Louis Witter.
In Calais, a military vehicle from Vigipirate came this morning to drift and spur on one of the city’s exile camps, before getting stuck 1 / pic.twitter.com/QIif8JDcMj
– Louis Witter (@LouisWitter) December 19, 2021
It is close to 2 p.m. in Calais and the vigipirate vehicle is still in bad shape.
The straps to release it from the mud have already broken three times.
Exiles help them to free the vehicle. Further, the CRS watch, without coming to spin a hand. pic.twitter.com/wKDQzTw5vv
– Louis Witter (@LouisWitter) December 19, 2021
The staff of the French army did not appreciate it at all. Contacted by France Télévisions, he judges this story “unacceptable” : “Once the facts are established, there will be sanctions”, he promises. In a message posted on Twitter, the military called the scene“inadmissible” and announces the opening of a “command investigation”.
Inadmissible scene. A command investigation is triggered immediately.
– Army (@armeedeterre) December 19, 2021
Several opposition officials were also indignant. “Women, men and especially children are afraid, hungry and cold. And a few meters away, soldiers are playing with their 4×4”, lamented MEP EELV Karima Delli. His colleague David Cormand asked him s’“there was still someone to command the police”, regretting that “refugee camps serve as an outlet for idle thugs who dishonor the uniform “.
Women, men and especially children are afraid, hungry and cold. And a few meters from the military are playing with their 4×4.
A comment @florence_parly ?
It is shameful ! https://t.co/VEucAjQxiC
– Karima Delli (@KarimaDelli) December 19, 2021
An association took the opportunity to denounce the way in which the police mistreat these volunteers who come to the aid of migrants.
AT #Calais, in the middle of a camp where only yesterday an association was fined for distributing food, a car from the Vigipirate plan decides without any embarrassment to play it Fast & Furious.
Bad luck, it looks like the French remake. pic.twitter.com/hsYavyFv4m
– Auberge des Migrants (@AubergeMigrants) December 19, 2021