Ten British “far-right activists” have been banned from France after their involvement in a crackdown on migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, the French Interior Ministry stated on Wednesday.
It stated the activists, who belonged to a gaggle known as Raise the Colours, have been looking and destroying small boats off the northern coast of France, and have been participating in “propaganda activity”.
Authorities haven’t launched their identities. BBC News has contacted the UK Foreign Office for remark.
In a press release, Raise the Colors stated it has all the time maintained that its actions ought to stay peaceable and throughout the legislation and that it “does not support violence or any illegal activity”.
The ministry stated it grew to become conscious of the group's actions in December 2025, which have been prone to trigger “serious disturbance of public order”.
Their efforts have been “aimed at the British public, calling for strengthening the ranks of the movement to end the migration phenomenon”, the ministry stated.
10 British residents have been banned from getting into and staying in France.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez stated in a put up on X that France's “rule of law is non-negotiable; actions that are violent in nature or incite hatred have no place on our territory”.
Raise the Colors stated it had not acquired any formal notification of France's measure, however understood that the sanction was towards “specific individuals rather than the entire organisation”.
The group described itself as a “grassroots movement for unity and patriotism” concerned in a marketing campaign to fly down UK flags and stated it had documented incidents in northern France round “illegal Channel crossings”.
Its web site states that it doesn’t help “vigilante behavior, unauthorized activity, or attempts by individuals to take the law into their own hands.”
Home Ministry figures present that 41,472 migrants crossed the Channel in 2025An enhance of 13% from 2024. This is the very best quantity since 2022, when about 46,000 migrants crossed.
A complete of 32 individuals crossed the English Channel by small boat from France between January 1 and January 5, 2026.
Since final 12 months, a social media account known as Raise the Colors has been circulating movies of its actions in France.
Since 2020, small boat crossings have turn out to be the most typical technique of detecting individuals getting into the UK illegally.
After a number of months of strain from the UK, in November, France agrees to start out stopping small boats In the channel.
With inputs from BBC