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PLANS to force police in France to intercept migrants on the beaches before they board boats for Britain have been rejected by powerful unions across the Channel.

They claim it would be too dangerous to try to tackle overcrowded dinghies at sea.

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Last Saturday, 1,195 migrants arrived on 19 small boats — the highest number for a single day this year.[/caption]

And their opposition is threatening to scupper efforts to close a loophole that means officers in France cannot stop boats once they are already in the water.

As a result, smugglers launch dinghies from inland canals and act as taxis to pick up migrants who wade into the sea, while law enforcement officials watch on from the shore.

France Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wants to change the law so officers can intervene up to 300m from the coastline but progress has been slow.

A new strategy is being drawn up to coincide with President Emmanuel Macron’s State visit to Britain in July. But unions in France are opposed to the plan.

A senior source at Alliance — the largest police union in the country — said: “People don’t seem to realise how dangerous it is to try to carry out arrests at sea, while trying to force a boat to change course.

“If there are 80 people on an overcrowded boat, including women and children, then it is extremely dangerous to try to stop them.

“The potential for disaster, including further deaths, is immense. Turning us into sea police is not the way forward.”

A source at the maritime branch of the General Confederation of Labour, which represents seamen across France, told The Sun: “If a potentially vulnerable boat is stable then it should not be interfered with until it reaches a safe place on the shore.

“Such boats should only be interfered with at sea if they are in serious trouble.”

Frédéric Okonek, coastal delegate for the Un1té union, said previously: “If the police intervene in the water, the boat sinks with a hundred people on board. It’s too dangerous.

“We also have orders: When the boat is in the water, we no longer have the right to intervene. It’s to prevent tragedies.”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told Mr Retailleau she wants the law changed as swiftly as possible.

Last Saturday, 1,195 migrants arrived on 19 small boats — the highest number for a single day this year.

Fewer than 40 per cent of boats have been turned back despite a £480million deal with France to combat crossings.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Belgium has been very successfully intercepting returning boats at sea and has almost entirely stopped embarkations.

“Trade unions and the Left have no interest in stopping illegal immigration.”

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Plans to force police in France to intercept migrants on the beaches before they board boats for Britain have been rejected by powerful unions[/caption]

IF you want a very quick insight into what is wrong with this country, just take a look at the case of Police Constable Lorne Castle.

Lorne, 46, worked for the plod in Bournemouth. Twice decorated for bravery. A popular policeman with the public and within the force.

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Police Constable Lorne Castle, twice decorated for bravery, was sacked over his aggressive arrest of a knife-carrying teen[/caption]

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And then, one day, his career was over. Sacked for “gross misconduct”.

What happened was this. Lorne was called to make an arrest of a teenager suspected of assaulting two people.

He turned up and the 15-year-old resisted arrest. He continued to resist even when the PC had hold of him.

This scrote was carrying a knife, by the way.

Lorne shouted at the boy to stop screaming and resisting arrest. He pushed him to the floor and put a hand over his face. He swore at him. Swearing is of course very rude. None of us should swear.

The result was that after a 16-month inquiry, during which he was suspended from his duties, Lorne was sacked.

He was placed on the police debarred list, which stops him ever working with the police again.

His life has been ruined. The panel that sacked him claimed he had failed to treat the suspect with “respect and courtesy”. Incredible, no? “Hello old chap! I hope you are living your best life! I ­wonder if I could ask you . . . Oh, OK, goodbye then.”

The panel also said that Lorne’s behaviour made the boy feel “frightened and intimidated”. Good! How was he meant to feel? Elated and relaxed? Warm and comfortable?

A whip-round among officers has ­provided him with some of his wages. And a retired Chief Inspector has spoken in his favour.

DID HIS JOB

But what did his boss have to say? Dorset police’s deputy chief Rachel Farrell said the sacking was right.

She added: “(Officers) do a tough job and when their actions are proportionate, necessary and reasonable they will always be supported.”

That, it turns out, was a lie. The ­constabulary even issued footage of the arrest in an attempt to make Lorne look more aggressive. Stripped out of context, the film is quite brutal.

But here’s the point. The boy was not hurt. And an armed suspect was arrested. Maybe Lorne shouldn’t have called him a bitch. We can argue over that.

But the truth is that Lorne did a wholly effective job in what was a very dangerous situation. And then got dragged through the mire for doing what he thought was his duty.

To keep the public safe from hoodied scrotes carrying knives.

But today our society is on the side of the skanks and the scrotes. They have their Yuman Roights which must not be transgressed. Doesn’t matter what they do. They must be respected.

The truth is that Castle did a wholly effective job in what was a very dangerous situation.

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And so we let shoplifters go free, cos they’re poor innit.

Almost no burglars are caught because society today doesn’t think crimes against property are terribly important.

Judges and tribunals tell asylum seekers they can remain here no matter what heinous crimes they have committed.

Because their rights trump our right not to be raped or stabbed or burgled.

And the few people who try to do the right thing? Like Lorne Castle, they end up being sacked.

An E.T. solution for gloomy-moon mob

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A psychic American man called Ingo Swann claims a colony of aliens are on the dark side of the moon[/caption]

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He also claims the CIA got him to train his powers on the moon’s far side[/caption]

APPARENTLY there’s a colony of aliens living secretly on the dark side of the moon.

The Americans know all about it, but have been sworn to secrecy.

They look like us and have built a tower bigger than the Empire State Building. (The aliens, I mean. But the Americans too I suppose).

This all comes from the diaries released by a psychic American man called Ingo Swann, who claims the CIA got him to train his powers on the moon’s far side.

And what I want to know is did these spies do this exercise for a laugh in their lunch hour?

And if not, shouldn’t we point out to the aliens that the other side of the moon is far nicer?

ONE LAW FOR ISLAM?

HAMIT Coskun burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy.

Hamit was protesting about the increasing Islamisation of the country of his birth.

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Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence and fined £240 for burning a Koran[/caption]

While he was making his protest he was attacked by a man with a knife.

A delivery driver then kicked him in the back as he lay on the ground.

Remarkably, the fact he was attacked was used by the judge to support his guilty sentence to the crime of “using disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress.”

The judge is, I think, an idiot. And no matter how they try to word it, we now have a blasphemy law in this country – but only for Islam.

Burn a Bible and nobody will turn a hair.

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A dozen new attack submarines are planned as Britain moves to a war footing[/caption]

DOES anybody, anywhere, understand when the UK is to raise its defence spending to three per cent of GDP?

Sir Keir Starmer, who made the announce­ment, clearly doesn’t have a clue.

It looks very much like it won’t be by the end of this Parliament, for a start.

There is talk of the UK needing to raise defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2034.

But it wouldn’t surprise me if 2034 is far too late.

Starmer was strong on defence for a while. But that interest now seems to have deserted him. Meanwhile, our enemies are looking on and sniggering.

WITH fists pumping and arms aloft, racing great Michael Schumacher celebrated his many victories with the same energy as his driving.

And that is how the Formula One team boss who helped turn the German legend into a champion three decades ago prefers to think of him.

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Michael Schumacher in his prime competing for Ferrari at the Chinese Grand Prix in 2004[/caption]

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Not as the incapacitated survivor of a horrific skiing accident that Schumacher is said to have become.

Italian businessman Flavio Briatore said this week: “If I close my eyes. I see him smiling after a victory.

“I prefer to remember him like that rather than him just lying on a bed.”

Flavio’s comments reveal the day-to-day struggles faced by the now-reclusive sporting hero, who once epitomised the swashbuckling spirit of adrenaline sport.

Schumacher, 56, would go wheel-to-wheel with rivals at extreme speeds on the scariest of bends en route to a record-breaking seven Formula One world championships.

Off the track he would party with pals, smoke big cigars, sky dive, scuba dive and fly helicopters.

‘Michael communicates with his eyes’

But nothing has been seen of Michael since his near-fatal crash on Alpine slopes in France on December 29, 2013.

Rumours of some medical miracles, appearances, fresh photos and interviews frequently spread online.

But a Formula One insider tells The Sun that like Flavio, the world needs to get used to not seeing Michael’s beaming smile any more.

Craig Scarborough, who has been covering the sport for around 25 years and interviewed Michael many times, reveals: “I spoke to someone who is very, very close to him and they just explained we’re not going to hear any more from him.

“He’s in a comfortable position as far as he can be with his state of health.”

It has also been reported that only three people see Michael at his secluded home on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca.

Even Flavio, 75, who has been a close friend of Michael since they began working together at the Benetton racing team in 1991, has not seen him for a while.

But the Italian says he “often” speaks to Michael’s wife Corinna, 56.

Much of her time is said to be consumed by maintaining her husband’s care and keeping the exact details of his current health condition a secret.

And Corinna has also had to cope with all the distress of dealing with a blackmail plot.

Yilmaz Tozturkan, 53, and his son Daniel Lins, 30, had threatened to publish videos and pictures of Michael unless they were given £12million.

Security guard Markus Fritsche had copied the private material while working for the Schumachers and sold it to the two men.

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In February the trio were found guilty of their part in the blackmail plot.

Fritsche was given a two-year suspended sentence, while Tozturkan was jailed for three years and Lins was given a six-month suspended prison sentence by a German court.

Corinna wanted a harsher sentence for Fritsche.

She said: “What still shocks me most is the massive breach of trust.

“He should receive a punishment for this that deters others from potentially doing the same.”

And last October stories emerged claiming that Michael had attended the wedding of his daughter Gina, 27, in Majorca.

Guests and staff had to hand over their mobile phones, while security guards made sure no one could snoop on the ceremony or party.

But Michael’s former Benetton teammate Johnny Herbert said: “From what I understand, that was all fake news.”

We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he’s comfortable.

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While it remains possible that Schumacher did attend the wedding in a wheelchair, another story was definitely made up.

Last year Corinna successfully sued German magazine Die Aktuelle for claiming on its cover “Michael Schumacher, the first interview!”

In fact the quotes had been generated by artificial intelligence.

What no outsider can be sure about is whether Michael could give an interview if he wanted to.

There have been conflicting accounts of his health condition.

When Michael’s head hit a boulder in the skiing accident 12 years ago, it split his helmet in two.

The brain injury was so serious that he spent 250 days in a coma.

The best medical treatment that money could buy brought the sporting great, who is worth £468million, back to consciousness.

There had been rumours that further treatment in Paris had allowed Michael to take some small steps, but that was later dismissed.

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Flavio Briatore, seen here at Monaco GP last month, spoke about his former Benetton driver[/caption]

Most people in the know indicate that he is unable to talk, although it is possible he could use eye movements to send messages like the late scientist Stephen Hawking did.

In 2020 Flavio’s former wife Elisabetta Gregoraci claimed that: “Michael doesn’t speak, he communicates with his eyes.”

Friends do visit and he still follows sports.

Former Ferrari F1 chief Jean Todt said: “I can see him but of course, what I miss is what we used to do together.

“I watch Grand Prix with Michael.”

Corinna also indicated there was an attempt to maintain normality in difficult circumstances.

She said in a 2021 Netflix documentary: “We’re together.

“We live together at home.

“We do therapy.

“We’re trying to carry on as a family’

“We do everything we can to make Michael better and to make sure he’s comfortable. And to simply make him feel our family, our bond.

“And no matter what, I will do everything I can. We all will.

“We’re trying to carry on as a family, the way Michael liked it and still does.”

I hope they can find happiness in the situation they find themselves in.

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It was reported by German media, ahead of the ten-year anniversary of his skiing accident in 2023, that Schumacher receives 24-hour care from a team of up to 15 people.

He has been driven in a Mercedes road car, and played sounds from the F1 track, to stimulate his brain with familiar noises.

There has been some good family news to lift Michael’s spirits.

Last month he became a grandfather for the first time when Gina gave birth to her daughter Millie.

His son, 26-year-old Mick, who spent two years as a F1 driver, was only 14 when his dad suffered the debilitating head injury.

In the Netflix documentary he admitted he would give “anything” to talk to him about the sport again.

Mick said: “I think dad and I would understand each other in a different way now, simply because we speak a similar language, the language of motorsport, and we would have a lot to talk about.

“That’s where my head is at most of the time, thinking that would be so cool. I’d give anything just for that.”

Mick found love with Danish model Laila Hasanovic, 26, in 2023 — and although they have recently been rumoured to have split   up, she was reportedly trusted enough by the family to be one of the few people to have visited Michael.

Craig reckons having close personal time with Mick and other family members is vital for the stricken motorsports star.

Physical workload

He says: “I think a lot of people demand stuff from him and I think that’s wrong.

“He is himself, and his family have a lot to contend with.

“Until you’ve cared for somebody, I don’t think anyone realises the emotion and the physical workload.

“The fact that they have been bold enough to withdraw from public life and not be tempted to do exclusives out there to various people, I think, is noble, and I hope that continues.

“I hope they can find happiness in the situation they find themselves in.”

Like Flavio, Craig is more comfortable talking about the Michael people knew before the ski tragedy.

He says: “He was a guy who enjoyed his personal time.

“He loved his family.

“He did lots of lovely things.

“He clearly liked a drink and he loved a big cigar.

“But he had lots of time to bring up his son.”

While it is understandable that Michael’s army of fans want to hear from him again, they may have to make do with recalling his past glories.

There were certainly more than enough of them for Flavio and others to remember.

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