Overview

• More than 50 people were halted near Gravelines before dawn, with officers using riot shields and vehicles and carrying guns and tear gas.
• At least 10 young children were in the group, and an officer pushed a woman with a baby strapped to her back back into the crowd.
• The group appeared to be waiting for a dinghy to move up the canal through the town, and they remained by the water after police withdrew.
• A separate black dinghy was photographed off Dunkirk later in the morning, and reports indicated that three small boats headed toward Dover.
• Home Office data cited in the latest reports put 2025 arrivals at 33,556 as of Monday, with 70 people arriving that day, as the UK and France pursue a limited ‘one in, one out’ returns pilot and France prepares rules to let police board boats up to 300 metres from shore.