Overview

• Shortly after 6 a.m. local time, more than 50 people were stopped from reaching the beach in Gravelines, with at least 10 young children in the group.
• Officers with riot shields, guns and tear gas used vehicles to block and shepherd the group away from the canal entrance to the beach.
• One officer pushed back a woman carrying a baby when she tried to break through the police line, according to reporters at the scene.
• The group appeared to be waiting for a dinghy on the canal; police later left and the migrants waited beside the water hoping to be picked up.
• A separate dinghy was seen off Dunkirk around 10:30 a.m., and three small boats were thought to have departed toward Dover that morning as total 2025 crossings reached 33,486.