Migrant teen who has tried ‘100 times’ to get into Britain on a small boat from France says ‘I’ll keep trying again and again – I’ll never give up’

A teen migrant has tried ‘100 times’ to get into Britain by crossing the Channel on a small boat from France and has declared he will ‘never give up’. 

Abdul Usman, who claims to be a 17-year-old from Sudan, has been living in a tent ‘jungle’ for seven months at Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk. 

He insisted that nothing would deter him from reaching Britain, where he said his mother is currently living as ‘that’s my route to freedom. I’ll try every day. I don’t care if the police keep trying to stop us and if the bad men attack me for not having money to pay them.’

‘I want to leave France because there’s no life here. They don’t care about us,’ he told the Sun.

He insisted that nothing would deter him from reaching Britain, where he said his mother is currently living as ‘that’s my route to freedom’

French police were pictured in a dramatic escalation of force slashing at inflatable dinghy’s and deploying tear gas to try and disperse migrants trying to leave the continent yesterday. Usman can be seen climbing off the boat 

It now appears that Usman got his wish, as the Sun has reported that he was on a boat which managed to evade police and take off from the beach yesterday. 

French police were pictured in a dramatic escalation of force slashing at inflatable dinghy’s and deploying tear gas to try and disperse migrants trying to leave the continent yesterday. 

However, they ultimately failed, when new dinghy arrived just 15 minutes later, which the migrants including Usman, hopped into and managed to push off to sea before cops could stop them. 

Even when warned that the Rwanda Bill had become law this week, meaning that Home Office officials can now start detaining the first batch of migrants destined for deportation to Rwanda ahead of the first flights this summer, Usman still could not be dissuaded. 

‘Nothing will stop me. I will get to England. I don’t want to be sent to Rwanda but I don’t fear going there.

‘Nothing can be worse than here.’ 

Now in a shock reveal even Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has backed a policy of deporting people to third countries for asylum processing.

In its manifesto for June’s European elections, Ms Von der Leyen’s European People’s Party (EPP) calls for ‘a fundamental change in European asylum law’.

However, police ultimately failed, when new dinghy arrived just 15 minutes later, which the migrants including Usman, hopped into and managed to push off to sea before cops could stop them

Even when warned that the Rwanda Bill had become law this week, meaning that Home Office officials can now start detaining migrants for deportation, Usman still could not be dissuaded. Pictured police tear gassing migrants yesterday trying to leave for the UK 

French National Police officers confiscate a boat after preventing migrants from boarding a smuggler’s boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel

The EPP grouping, the largest in the European Parliament, has pledged: ‘We want to implement the concept of safe third countries. Anyone applying for asylum in the EU could also be transferred to a safe third country and undergo the asylum process there.’ 

Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, a delighted Mr Sunak says: ‘I said when I first became Prime Minister that others would recognise a meaningful deterrent is the only way to stop the boats and now even top parties in the EU are following our lead.’ 

Photographs of an operation on Dunkirk beach show officers dressed in body-armour wading into the surf to foil an attempted crossing.

One officer is seen wielding a knife as he prepares to deflate a dinghy overloaded with dozens of migrant. Other policemen are seen dragging away the boat’s motor.

Distraught migrants are seen collapsing onto the beach as they are prevented from making the dangerous journey, which some had paid up to £1000 each to attempt.

The dramatic change in tactics is understood to be a direct response to the tragedy that unfolded on Tuesday near the town of Wimereux in the early hours of Tuesday.

Three men, a woman and a seven-year-old girl died during the chaos after their dinghy, laden with 112 people, was stormed by a rival group of migrants as it prepared to set off.