The scene is mind-boggling. Between drifts and bursts of speed, a car transporting soldiers was miserably illustrated on a wasteland in Calais, facing a migrant camp.
On photos and videos published this Sunday, December 19 on Twitter by journalist Louis Witter, we can see an Army 4X4 making arabesques in reverse in a muddy field, located at the exit of Calais.
The vehicle dedicated to the “Vigipirate mission traffic” in particular drove at full speed into a puddle near a migrant camp, thus causing sprays of water in its path.
In Calais, a military vehicle from Vigipirate came this morning to drift and spur on one of the city’s exile camps, before getting stuck 1 / pic.twitter.com/QIif8JDcMj
– Louis Witter (@LouisWitter) December 19, 2021
Some exiles whistle the show before watching the car get stuck in the mud.
“The soldiers left the vehicle with their weapons while waiting for someone to help them out,” said Louis Witter. Stuck halfway through the door, the brown car was finally cleared by a military truck, helped by migrants.
An “inadmissible scene”
“Unacceptable scene. A command investigation is triggered immediately, ”the Army said indignantly on its Twitter account. In a press release, the military staff also denounced the “totally inappropriate behavior” of the driver. The patrol vehicle fulfilled a surveillance mission as part of Operation Sentinel in the Calais area.
If the sanctions will be decided after having established the responsibility for the facts, the scene did not fail to react strongly on the web.
The Auberge des Migrants association, which works with refugees from Hauts-de-France, published a post, to say the least sarcastic, calling the affair a “French remake of Fast & Furious”.
AT #Calais, in the middle of a camp where only yesterday an association was fined for distributing food, a car from the Vigipirate plan decides without any embarrassment to play it Fast & Furious.
Bad luck, it looks like the French remake. pic.twitter.com/hsYavyFv4m
– Auberge des Migrants (@AubergeMigrants) December 19, 2021