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Public school-educated gap-year activists are volunteers for charities that are 'continually frustrating' police in France in their attempt to stop illegal Channel crossings, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
French authorities have passed an intelligence dossier to the UK on the British charities operating in and around Calais.
The activists follow police, revealing their activities and locations in footage on social media available to migrants and people smugglers.
Rory Biggs O'May is known to French authorities for public-order offences including illegally squatting, damaging property and breaching lockdown rules
Isabella Anderson, niece of BBC television presenter Chris Packham, was a 'field coordinator' plotting the group's response to French 'police operations and emergencies' during a gap year
The volunteers patrolling beaches and migrant camps 'berate' and disrupt officers, according to French authorities.
The charities – funded by donations from well-meaning Britons who believe their cash will go towards hot meals and warm clothes for migrants – say they monitor police to prevent them from committing human rights abuses.
But last night, Tory MP Lee Anderson said that those British charity workers interfering with French police are as 'bad as the people smugglers' because they are in effect 'aiding and abetting' the illegal gangs.
Mr Anderson, who last week visited the migrant camps in Calais, told the MoS he had personally observed charity workers 'frustrating' police.
'The French police see these people attracting migrants to northern France and think, "Why should we help?" It could not be clearer what their intentions are.
'They are teaching them to speak and read and write in English – they are not getting them ready for a life in France,' he added.
One Calais-based charity singled out in the dossier is the group Human Rights Observers (HRO), it is understood.
Grammar school and Oxford-educated socialist Serena Watson-Follett, 25, whose family home in a village near Bristol is worth almost £900,000, has also been involved with the charities
Footage on the charity's social media shows a clash between volunteers and French police as they block officers in riot gear attempting to disperse a large groups of young, male migrants.
Among those involved with HRO is Rory Biggs O'May, who is known to French authorities for public-order offences including illegally squatting, damaging property and breaching lockdown rules.
French authorities have even considered denying the 23-year-old entry.
Mr Biggs O'May, the son of wealthy lawyers, attended a school with fees of up to £23,379 a year.
The family home is on a North London street where properties fetch more than £2 million.
They also own a £2 million, five-bedroom holiday home with a swimming pool in the New Forest.
Also involved with HRO is Isabella Anderson, niece of BBC television presenter Chris Packham.
She was a 'field
