(AFP) French security forces have detained 38 migrants seeking to cross the Channel on a small boat to Britain after they clashed with police, prosecutors said.
Three members of the gendarmerie were injured in Oye-Plage outside Calais on France’s northern coast, prosecutors in the town of Saint Omer said late on Thursday.
They were patrolling the beach in all-terrain vehicles on Thursday morning when the migrants threw stones at them.
The windshield of one of the buggies shattered and then [it] swerved into soft sands “causing it to roll over,” prosecutors told AFP.
The migrants continued their attack on the three gendarmes stuck in the buggy “before a rapid intervention by their colleagues to free them.”
