One way of keeping fit during Lockdown might be to walk through the Channel Tunnel. On 21 December 2020, security officers on the French side of the Channel Tunnel arrested a young man who had just walked through the tunnel, with his sleeping bag, a sports bag and a scratched photo ID.
He claimed to be Hungarian, but would say no more. He appeared in court again on 1 February, by which time it was established that he was a young British man from Manchester who had been convicted of 21 of the 50 criminal charges against him, and had already spent four years in prison.
According to a French police source, “”He was running, so as to get to France as soon as possible.” But his plan for a European tour have now been halted by a prison sentence of six months. His lawyer tried to plead that there no proof of his under-the-Channel illegal walk. But security cameras in the tunnel had recorded the walk six times on that date, and Channel tunnel management stated that this walk cost some €50,000 in stoppages.
It is only the second known incident of its kind, and happened despite massive security measures inside the undersea facility.
- as reported in La Voix du Nord, local paper on the French side of the Channel
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