The army announced Sunday the “immediate” trigger of an investigation after the diffusion of images showing the incorporation of a vehicle of the Vigipirate mission.
Le Monde
The images highlight a striking contrast: soldiers have fun making slippage in the mud in front of the tents of a migrant camp in Calais, in the north of France. But the episode, told Sunday, December 19 by a photojournalist present on the spot, went wrong for the soldiers of the Vigipirate mission, who brought their vehicle and were forced to request the help of the surrounding people to clear their vehicle . “Inadmissible scene. A command investigation is triggered immediately”, immediately reacted The army on his Twitter account .
“In Calais, a military vehicle of Vigipirate came this morning doing drift and speed spikes on one of the city’s exile camps, before getting bogged down,” says the photojournalist Louis Witter in A series of messages published on the social network.
In Calais, a military vehicle of Vigipirate came this morning doing drift and speed spikes on one d … https://t.co/k8tcmvk1bc
– Louiswitter (@louis witter)
You can see a 4 x 4 brown, whose windshield is adorned with a headband “Mission Vigipirate” and which wears a military license plate, make arabesques in a muddy field located “On a vague field at the exit of Calais”, according to Mr. Witter. In the background, a tent camp, in which migrants live in the most total destitution. Some whistle the show.
“All this to finish his race burned in the mud of the camp. The military went out with their arms of the vehicle while waiting for someone to troubleshoot them. Before calling a bigger truck they asked, a little bored. , “Do not you have shovels?” “, Pursues the photojournalist.
On these images have seen the exiled people helping out the 4×4 of the military soldiers and the Fli … https://t.co/ih4jszqxrd //p>- louiswitter (@louis witter)
The vehicle, stuck until mid-door, was finally cleared by soldiers … helped by migrants, he still narrated. “Exiled people are digging in flip-flop in the mud to get out the car from there while police officers [also present] do not move an inch,” he said. On other videos, he had shown the 4 x 4 brown at full speed in a puddle, causing water sheaves in his passage.
On several occasions, the Vigipirate vehicle occupied by armed military has passed into the puddles and devan … https://t.co/805ps5hj1n //p>- louiswitter (@louis witter)
The Pas-de-Calais prefecture has confirmed that the facts had taken place on Sunday in Calais and that they concern a vehicle of Vigipirate. “The Sentinels are there on a security mission on Calais and the coast. They have a mission of protection and anti-terrorism,” said Emmanuel Cayron, director of cabinet of the prefect.
This episode highlights the “disconnection (with) the daily migrants”, reacted Nikolai Posner, communication coordinator for the Utopia 56 association. “In parallel, you have several shipwrecks at sea this morning, With sixteen children quarred “of a shipwreck, he points out. Recognizing that “it could have been dangerous”, Mr. Posner still considers that the scene brings “a little human in an inhuman daily”.