Shocking footage of French authorities handing out life jackets to Channel migrants but refusing to intervene has been shown in court.
The clip, recorded on a drone, shows a French vessel supposedly patrolling the coastline gently pulling alongside a dangerously overcrowded small boat.
Once in touching distance, officials on board passed several bright buoyancy aids to those crammed on the inflatable destined for the UK.
The boat was piloted by Sudanese asylum seeker Alnour Mohamed Ali, 26, who was today jailed for two years and three months in jail after he admitted endangering life at sea.
A second defendant, Afghan 32-year-old Mohammad Tajik, was
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