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Peter, 55, and Jill Stubbs, 57, were reportedly targeted by a dozen robbers as they were stuck in traffic en route home from a holiday in the south of France, the Sun reports.

They were briefly unable to escape as their black BMW was surrounded by three other vehicles and motorbikes held up the traffic.

Two men on foot allegedly began circling them with one carrying a gun or knife approached the drivers side.

The second then used a brick to smash the passenger window before leaning in and grabbing Jills bag.

Jill, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was left covered in glass after the robbers smashed the front window.

The couple from Cornwall managed to escape by driving down a side road near Saint-Denis on Saturday night.

Peter, a father-of-five, said: It all happened so quickly. We are lucky because it could have been much worse. I thought they might smash in all the windows and take the car or hurt us.

I still cant believe the police wouldnt help us and nobody came to our aid.

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Aid workers help migrants up the shore after making the crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos on November 16, 2015 in Sikaminias, Greece

I thought they might smash in all the windows and take the car or hurt us.

Peter Stubbs, 55, driver of the ambushed car

Calais border officials explained to the shock-ridden couple why they were targeted amidst a cue of cars in traffic.

The officials reportedly said they were targeted for their number plate rather than their possessions which included a handbag containing passports, 400 and the equivalent of 300 in Euros.

Peter added: We managed to get back to the Euro tunnel but my wife was covered in glass.

We were really shook up. When we go to border control we explained what happened and were told it is very common.

I said to him, Ive got a new car, its a BMW but he told me its not your car theyre after, its your number plate, you were targeted by migrants because youre British and they want to get into the country.

Dover MP Charlie Elphicke condemned the shocking attack, saying: We cannot have a situation where Brits are being targeted by ruthless people traffickers whether it be in Paris or Calais.

Thats why its more important than ever that our borders are strong and secure particularly at the Dover frontline.

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The Latest on Europe's response to the large numbers of migrants and refugees trying to reach the continent (all times local):

7:35 p.m.

The aid group Doctors Without Borders says it's worried about minors and other migrants who have disappeared in hills near the French border with Italy.

The group, which also is known by its French acronym MSF, said Tuesday about 100 migrants had been sleeping for weeks near a river bank by Ventimiglia, an Italian border town. It said it hasn't been able to make contact with them since Monday.

MSF's doctors tend migrant patients at Ventimiglia. The group reported a few days ago that a 16-year-old boy died while washing his belongings in the river.

French authorities repeatedly have blocked the migrants from entering France.

Early Monday, 400 refugees from South Sudan tried in vain to enter France through woods along the border.

5:35 p.m.

Nearly 8,900 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea during the last few days.

The United Nations migration agency said on Tuesday that 8,864 migrants trying to reach Europe on unseaworthy smugglers' dinghies and fishing boats have been safely rescued since June 24.

Libya-based smugglers take advantage of calm seas to launch as many boats as they can toward Italy, and conditions on the Mediterranean have been calm lately.

The Italian coast guard coordinates the transfer to southern Italian ports of migrants rescued at sea by Italian and European military or coast guard boats and private volunteer. A Spanish military vessel that took on some 800 migrants was expected in Sardinia Wednesday.

A European Frontex patrol ship arrived in Calabria on Tuesday with 520 migrants and the bodies of two more aboard.

5:15 p.m.

Italian authorities in Sicily have detained a 23-year-old man for alleged torture of migrants awaiting passage in Libya on smugglers' boats to Italy.

Police said the man was held for investigation of belonging to an armed criminal association involved in human trafficking. They say he is the sixth such torture suspect detained since March.

The ANSA news agency said migrants who were brought to Italy after being rescued at sea reported that the suspect beat people with rubber tubes and burned them with gasoline in Libya near the border with Sudan.

As in similar past cases, police say the migrants were sometimes tortured while traffickers were on the phone with the migrants' relatives to pressure them to pay more money for their loved ones' trips.

4:55 p.m.

A French court has ruled against creating a new center for migrants in the western port city of Calais but says they should have access to water, showers and toilets, services the city's mayor is refusing to provide.

The Pas-de-Calais region welcomed part of Monday's ruling, arguing in a statement that a camp isn't a "worthy response" to the migrant crisis. Mayor Natacha Bouchart says she will appeal and tweeted that she would not apply the ruling because she doesn't want Calais to again become a magnet for migrants.

Aid group Auberge des Migrants tweeted Tuesday the mayor was setting a "bad example."

Tensions are resurfacing in Calais as hundreds of people gather there in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain.

Last year, French authorities closed a makeshift camp that sprung up in Calais and housed thousands of people at its height.

The French human rights ombudsman recently warned of dire conditions for migrants in Calais.

3:25 p.m.

Romanian border police have found 91 migrants from Iraq and Syria hidden in a truck transporting auto parts. They told police they were trying to reach the visa-free Schengen travel zone.

Police stopped and searched the vehicle with Turkish plates early Tuesday at the crossing point between Nadlac and Csanadpalota in Hungary. According to documents, it was transporting the auto parts to Norway.

Police found 44 men, 18 women and 29 minors aged 2 to 17. The migrants told police they wanted to reach the Schengen zone. Hungary is a member, but Romania isn't.

The driver told Romanian authorities he did not know about the migrants.

The migrants are being probed on suspicion of illegally attempting to cross the border, while the driver is suspected of being an accomplice.

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More than 8,000 migrants have been rescued in waters off Libya during the past 48 hours in difficult weather conditions, Italy's coastguard said Tuesday.

"On Monday, we rescued about 5,000 people from four large boats, one smaller one and 18 rubber dinghies," a spokesman told AFP.

People were pulled to safety by coastguard vessels, military ships operating under the EU's border agency Frontex and aid boats run by privately funded organisations. Their efforts were coordinated by the coastguard.

"Together with Sea Watch and Sea Eye our crew was able to save more people last night under bad weather conditions," the German NGO Jugend Rettet tweeted on Tuesday, referring to two other nonprofit groups.

It said that "three people died", though it was not clear whether the victims were found dead or died during the rescue.

Italy's coastguard said it was seeing "a lot of activity" on Tuesday, "but not at the same level as on Monday".

Spain's Civil Guard said one of its vessels serving under Frontex's anti-trafficking Operation Triton had rescued 133 people found on an inflatable dinghy off Libya.

Those rescued included 17 minors, two babies and 23 women, seven of whom were pregnant, it said.

The crew was coming to the assistance of two other dinghies and had been asked to assist three others, it said, adding that the vessel expected to end up with 1,300 migrants on board, "its maximum capacity".

Traffickers on the North African coast take advantage of periods of good weather to set large numbers of migrants seeking passage to Europe out to sea, a notoriously dangerous crossing.

On Sunday, over 3,300 people were rescued in 31 separate operations, while two bodies were recovered.

The record for migrants rescued on a single day stands at 7,000, plucked from their unseaworthy vessels on August 29, 2016.

Over 73,300 migrants have landed in Italy since January, a 14 percent increase from the same period last year.

Just over 2,000 people have died attempting the crossing or are missing feared drowned since the beginning of 2017, according to the UN's refugee agency.

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The European Union (EU) migrant agreement with Turkey began in March 2016. Since then, the EU has taken in6,907 Syrian asylum seekers directly from Turkey.

Ankara, by contrast, has taken only 1,229 migrants from Greece which contradicts the agreement in which Turkey is expected to take back one migrant for every migrant Europe takes from Turkey,Die Welt reports.

The EU-Turkey agreement has largely been credited with stopping the massive flow of migrants which, in 2015 at the height of the migrant crisis, saw over a million migrants arrive in Germany.

Germany has also taken in the most migrants from Turkey since the agreement began, admitting2,516 Syrians followed by Netherlands who have taken 1,552, and then France with 839.

The Greek government has returned only 1,229 migrants to Turkey; the EU Commissionblames the lack of numbers on the slow asylum claim procedures in Greece.

Since the closure of the Greek border with Macedoniaand Bulgaria, the Greek government has been stuck with tens of thousands of migrants. Realising they would be sent back to Turkey after the agreement, huge numbers of the migrants in Greece applied for asylum, overwhelming the Greek system.

Greece has also been heavily criticised for the conditions in the migrant camps, which are often located on islands in the Aegean Sea. The government has countered the claims saying the countrys resources have been stretched to the limit and have asked the EU for financial assistance.

In order to provide relief for Greece, the EU has attempted to redistribute migrants from the country and from Italy, which has seen a surge of migrants from North Africa in the past year.

Many countries, particularly Central European countries like Poland and Hungary, have rejected the EUs redistribution plans. The EU has threatened both countries witheconomic sanctions for refusing to accept migrants but both countries have remained defiant.

Turkey has also used the migrant agreement to threaten the bloc on several occasions. Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoan threatened to scrap the agreement earlier this year when Austria voted to stopTurkeys accessionprocess to the EU.

In March of this year, Turkish Foreign Minister Sleyman Soylu threatened a wave of 15,000 migrants permonth after several EU countries banned Turkish politicians from holding rallies supporting a referendum that merged the powers of the prime minister and the presidency of Turkey.

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