A Frenchwoman has described how migrants have made her terrified to stay in her home on the front line of the small-boat crisis, as she released CCTV of crowds swarming past in life jackets to catch dinghies bound for Britain.
Mother-of-two Héloïse Longuet, 44, said her 19th-century family farmhouse on the English Channel coast near Neufchâtel-Hardelot, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, was now surrounded by young men living in illegal squats.
All have been drawn to the once quiet corner of northern France by criminals charging them around £1,000 a head for a place on an overcrowded inflatable heading for England.
