The Rt Hon Philip Hammond
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Downing Street West
LONDON
SW1A 2AL
Re: refusal of entry to France
20 June 2016
Dear Secretary of State
I am writing to ask you to complain to the French government
in the strongest possible terms over their refusal to allow an aid convoy delivering
aid to refugees in Calais to enter France.
On Saturday 18 June around 250 cars, vans and lorries
attempted to deliver aid to refugees in France.
This had been planned for many months (I signed up several months ago),
and we were bringing many tons of urgently needed aid for some of the most
desperate people.
When we got to Dover we were help up at the port and the
French authorities refused to allow us through and took around an hour to
process a few cars before rejecting them.
Not only is there supposed to be free movement of people within the EU,
but we were an aid convoy delivering aid.
If this had been aid to refugees in some other country the convoy would
have been applauded and supported by the French government, but instead they
were preventing its delivery.
Please “request and require” of the French authorities that
they “allow [UK citizens] to pass freely without let or hindrance, and afford
the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary”. And that they allow all future aid convoys
through.
I look forward to hearing what you have done and the French
response.
Yours sincerely
Tom Franklin
CC: Julian Sturdy MP
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