A FAMILY almost drowned today as they struggled to board a migrant boat — while ten French cops watched from the shore and shrugged: “It’s difficult.”.
The mum, dad and young children were among a group of asylum seekers who tried but failed to wade out to the dinghy in time.
Fighting their way through currents, they returned in silence to the beach in Gravelines, around 15 miles east of Calais.
The family, believed to be from Eritrea, finally recovered enough to declare they would try again to clamber on to the estimated £1,200-a-spot “taxi” to Britain.
Just feet away were the cops, watching with binoculars. They wore riot helmets and some carried shields and pepper spray.
Asked why they would not intervene when it was clearly so perilous, one officer simply told The Sun: “It’s difficult.”
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