France bans 10 far-right UK activists for targeting migrant boats

Minister says ‘violent oregon hate-inciting actions person nary place’ successful France arsenic ‘Raise the Colours’ activists banned.

France has banned 10 British anti-migrant activists for attempting to halt migrants and asylum seekers from crossing into the United Kingdom on tiny boats, the French Ministry of Interior has announced.

In a connection connected Wednesday, the ministry said it had been alerted to the actions of activists with the alleged “Raise the Colours” group, “searching for and destroying tiny boats” and engaging successful “propaganda activity” connected the bluish French coast.

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It issued a prohibition against 10 Raise the Colours activists connected Tuesday, efficaciously banning them from entering and residing successful France, the ministry said.

“Our regularisation of instrumentality is non-negotiable,” French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez wrote connected societal media. “Violent oregon hate-inciting actions person nary spot connected our territory.”

The French authorities did not instantly sanction the 10 radical targeted by the ban.

But French authorities person opened an probe implicit an alleged “aggravated assault” connected migrants successful September successful a coastal country adjacent the bluish metropolis of Dunkirk.

Four men carrying British and English flags verbally and physically assaulted a radical of migrants successful Grand-Fort-Philippe connected the nighttime of September 9 to 10, telling them they were not invited successful England, a foundation moving with migrants told the AFP quality agency.

In a statement shared connected X, Raise the Colours said it had not received immoderate “formal notification” from the French authorities regarding a ban.

“Raise the Colours has ever maintained that its activities indispensable stay peaceful and wrong the law. The organisation does not enactment unit oregon immoderate unlawful activity,” the connection said.

Far-right activists successful the UK person seized connected years of migrant and asylum seeker crossings from France – via the English Channel – to beforehand a hardline, anti-immigration agenda.

Last year, far-right groups rallied successful cities and towns crossed the UK, demanding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s authorities halt lodging asylum seekers astatine hotels.

In July, information showed more than 25,000 people had crossed the English Channel into the UK by that constituent of the twelvemonth – the fastest gait of arrivals since record-keeping began successful 2018.

In total, much than 41,000 radical crossed the Channel successful tiny boats successful 2025, an summation from the erstwhile twelvemonth but less than the grounds acceptable successful 2022, erstwhile much than 45,000 radical made the crossing, according to the Home Office.