{"id":369621,"date":"2026-01-14T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:20:06","slug":"france-bans-10-british-far-right-activists-over-anti-migrant-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369621\/","title":{"rendered":"France bans 10 British ‘far-right activists’ over anti-migrant activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ministry said it became aware of the group’s actions in December 2025 which were likely to cause “serious disturbances to public order”.<\/p>\n

Their efforts were “aimed at the British public, called upon to strengthen the ranks of the movement to put an end to the migratory phenomenon”, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

The 10 British nationals are prohibited from entering and residing in France.<\/p>\n

French Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said in a post on X that France’s “rule of law is non-negotiable; actions that are violent in nature or incite hatred have no place on our territory”.<\/p>\n

Raise the Colours said it had not received any formal notification of France’s measure but understood the ban was against “specific individuals, rather than the organisation as a whole”.<\/p>\n

The group described itself as a “grassroots movement for unity and patriotism” involved in a UK flag-raising campaign and that it had documented events in northern France around “illegal Channel crossings”.<\/p>\n

Its website stated that it did not support “vigilante behaviour, unauthorised activity, or attempts by individuals to take the law into their own hands”.<\/p>\n

Home Office figures show that 41,472 migrants crossed the Channel in 2025<\/a>, a 13% rise from 2024. It is the highest number since 2022, when nearly 46,000 migrants crossed.<\/p>\n

Between 1 January and 5 January 2026, a total of 32 people crossed the English Channel by small boat from France.<\/p>\n

Since last year, a social media account called Raise the Colours has been circulating videos of its activities in France.<\/p>\n

Small boat crossings have become the most common way for people to be detected entering the UK illegally since 2020.<\/p>\n

In November, following months of pressure from the UK, France agreed to start intercepting small boats<\/a> in the Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ministry said it became aware of the group’s actions in December 2025 which were likely to cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-369621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}