Police are looking into a video appearing to show anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas slashing at an inflatable boat with a knife in the English Channel.<\/p>\n
The boat had been carrying about 50 migrants who had launched from a beach in Normandy. They were picked up by two RNLI lifeboats once they had reached the UK search and rescue area and were taken to Dover for processing.<\/p>\n
Daniel Thomas, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, had been filming the transfer from a yellow speedboat while giving commentary to a live stream audience of more than 15,000 people.<\/p>\n
The video then shows him sailing up to the boat, taking out a small knife and start slashing at the side of the migrant boat.<\/p>\n
There were no migrants on board, but there was a French official from the coastguard vessel Abeille Libert\u00e9.<\/p>\n
As the Frenchman boarded the empty migrant boat mid-Channel Thomas shouted “Right, you are on English territory. This is England. This is not France any more.”<\/p>\n
Then he made a series of stabbing and slashing movements against the rubber side of the large inflatable boat.<\/p>\n
“Get off – get off,” he shouted. “You’ve got time to get off the boat.”<\/p>\n
It was not clear from the live stream if he did any damage to the boat.<\/p>\n
“We just wanted to make sure that boat was not taken back to France and used again,” Thomas told his followers.<\/p>\n
Posting on X, campaign group Stand Up To Racism described the footage as “disgusting”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking into a video appearing to show anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas slashing at an inflatable boat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780010","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=780010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}