Shocked border guards in France found the 33 stowaways on a lorry in Calais that had justarrived from Dover. France returned them under a reciprocal agreement which allows the French to send back ­illegal immigrants if they are asylum seekers or criminals. (Image: PA Archive/PA Images)Under this agreement France is entitled to return asylum seekers if they are facing criminal charges in the UK or had already applied for asylum here. A French Border Police source said: “It is not unheard of for migrants to travel from Britain to France, but these are normally isolated individual cases. A record 90 people were picked up by UK Border Force agents as they tried to cross the Channel to Britain in small boats on Thursday.

Source: Daily Mirror February 08, 2020 22:07 UTC