Subject: France to probe brutal video of poLICE abusing migrants in Calais Wed May 13, 2015 5:09 am
French police are investigating a scandalous video of officer misconduct against migrants in the port town of Calais, where thousands of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East are stranded hoping to cross the English channel into UK. “The exact circumstances of this intervention will be rapidly examined... and any failure to apply the ethical rules will be punished,” the police said in a statement on Tuesday. Prosecutor Jean-Pierre Valensi of Boulogne-sur-Mer near Calais told AFP he had summoned the police's internal inspection body over the footage, which shows acts that are “liable to be classed as criminal... if they are proven.”