PARIS, Oct 12: China is to send this week to Paris a group of specially-trained immigration police who are to establish themselves at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, in the new transit zone just set up under the French Red Cross.

French authorities in the Police de l’Air et des Frontieres (PAF) at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, the principal gateway into France, are hoping that the presence of the Chinese police will help stem the flow of clandestines who arrive from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

French immigration police are already cooperating with those from Great Britain and Romania.

The British and Romanian immigration police have been able to largely stop illegal immigration of Iraqis and Afghans who used to cross French soil to make their way via the Channel Tunnel into Britain.