Insane moment migrant threatens Express and says the UK is ‘two-faced’

EXCLUSIVE: The Express was confronted by an aggressive man mingling with migrants but with no intention of travelling to Britain.

The man approached the Express and began threatening to call the police (Image: Daniel Dove)

This is the moment a migrant threatened the Daily Express at a make-shift camp in Calais, France.

Our team was interviewing men trying to cross the Channel on small boats when they were aggressively confronted by an individual who was mingling with the group but not intending to travel to England himself.

Approaching Express investigations editor Zak Garner-Purkis, he warned: “You’re not allowed to film. You talk to the police before you film.”

The journalist responded by highlighting the fact that, under French law, as is the case in Britain, it is perfectly legal to film in public. This caused the man to get angry and, after arguing with the reporter, he threatened to call the police.

Having been stopped repeatedly by local cops throughout the trip, our team was determined not to be intimidated and called the man’s bluff.

He put his phone on speaker and dialled a number connected to an automated system, which did not appear to be a police number.

The man refused to say where he was from or what connection he had to the group. He was clearly not an outreach worker and was dressed in a manner that blended with the migrants.

Oddly, for a person who was mingling with people trying to travel illegally to Britain, the man, who spoke excellent English, spoke with disdain about the UK.

“I’ve been everywhere,” he told the Express, “I mean, even your country.

“The UK doesn’t want [people to come], [The country] always has two faces [and] doesn’t want people to come over.”

Seeing that he couldn’t threaten our team into leaving, he called us “racists” and walked back to the migrants, whom he spoke to individually.

The interaction was one of many incidents during the Express’s reporting trip to Northern France, during which the team encountered people who were organising or instructing migrants.

At another camp on the outskirts of Calais, men on bikes cycled around, warning anyone who began speaking to our team to stop.

Frequently, we were followed by men on the outskirts of migrant camps or noticed spotters on the fringes of large groups who made phone calls when we or police arrived.

Our team captured images of people telling migrants what buses to get on and carrying lifejackets.

On one bus, which we tracked to the centre of Calais, we saw the group’s leaders identified by French police and removed.

Despite these efforts, nearly 1,500 migrants left French beaches on small boats in the following days. It took the yearly total past 20,000, a figure which was greeted with anger by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

“It is a record and will only increase if we continue to give them everything when they arrive,” he wrote on X.

In France, the Express discovered migrants coming by small boat to the UK were being transported for free by traffickers because they can pay off the debt working illegally.

The revelation came a week after an Express investigation exposed the illegal employment of asylum seekers as fast food delivery drivers.