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Authorities are currently investigating a video that appears to show anti-migrant campaigner Daniel Thomas damaging an inflatable boat in the English Channel with a knife. The boat had been transporting around 50 migrants who had set off from a beach in Normandy. Once the migrants reached the UK’s search and rescue zone, they were picked up by two RNLI lifeboats and subsequently taken to Dover for processing.
Daniel Thomas, also known to his followers as Danny Tommo, was capturing the transfer on video from a yellow speedboat while providing live commentary to an audience exceeding 15,000 viewers. In the footage, he is seen approaching the inflatable boat, producing a small knife, and making slashing motions against its rubber side.
At the time Thomas was attacking the boat, it was empty, with no migrants onboard. However, a French coastguard official from the vessel Abeille Liberté was present, boarding the migrant boat mid-channel. During this, Thomas shouted, “Right, you are on English territory. This is England. This is not France any more.” He proceeded to make stabbing and slashing gestures toward the side of the inflatable vessel, urging, “Get off – get off. You’ve got time to get off the boat.”
It remains unclear from the live footage whether any actual damage was inflicted on the boat. Speaking to his followers afterward, Thomas stated, “We just wanted to make sure that boat was not taken back to France and used again.” In response to the video, the campaign group Stand Up To Racism condemned the actions shown, describing the footage as “disgusting.
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