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Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea

Around 60 people were transferred to Border Security Command after a French coastguard shadowed the dinghy for more than 33 hours, officials said.

  • Far-Right activist Daniel Thomas, known as 'Danny Tommo,' livestreamed himself using a knife to slash a migrant dinghy on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, while a rescue worker was on board in the English Channel.
  • Departing Normandy on Monday, the dinghy undertook a rare and lengthy crossing before being intercepted by RNLI lifeboats and a French coastguard vessel after spending more than 24 hours at sea.
  • Hundreds of anti-migrant protesters gathered in Gosport, Hampshire, on Tuesday evening, leading to six arrests after the crowd 'became hostile towards officers' while awaiting the vessel's arrival.
  • Border Force ultimately redirected the dinghy to Dover early Wednesday morning, avoiding the Gosport disembarkation that local MP Dame Caroline Dinenage warned would cause 'avoidable disruption' to the community.
  • Hampshire police confirmed they are 'conducting enquiries' into Thomas's actions, which humanitarian campaigners branded 'violent and dangerous' as tensions rise between state-led rescue efforts and independent vigilante interference.
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After the rescue of some 60 exiled by an association off the British coast on Tuesday, 22 September, Daniel Thomas put several stab wounds in the pneumatic boat that was carrying them. A rescuer was still on board.

·Paris, France
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A dinghy, a French sea rescuer on board – and suddenly Danny Tommo pulls a knife. The British anti-migration activist slits a side wall of the boat and transmits the action on the Internet. Now the police are investigating him.

·Berlin, Germany
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Sky News UK broke the news in United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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