“And it ended up me being in this place. And I was with a fake name, with a fake haircut, and funny looking glasses and a camera in my watch, walking around all these Nazis and neo-Nazis.”

His elder daughter “remembers her father every day.”

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31-year-old Farid Djassadi lost both his legs during an interception.

Court documents we obtained show he fell into the sea as the police were pursuing his boat, causing his legs to be severed by the police boat’s motor

We found training videos demonstrating the dangerous interception tactics described by the officers we spoke to

To cross-check these accounts, We obtained case files documenting 4 deadly incidents, as well as police & gendarmerie reports.

We interviewed 6 serving & former French officials who had been posted to Mayotte.

They confirmed aggressive tactics were part of routine practice

Officially, French police are only allowed to rescue people at sea, and not to intercept them b/c it’s too risky.

But 20 survivors from 17 different incidents told us the police had circled or collided with their boats, sometimes causing them to capsize

REVEALED: French police have caused dozens of drownings by violently intercepting small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte.

Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel, to try to stop people from reaching the UK.

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