Driver in Calais refugee car horror ‘swerved at 40mph to dodge mob before migrant jumped on car’
Nafthali Reichman, 63, who was in the passenger seat told how their car came under attack by a horde of 'terrifying' migrants
THE dad of a British motorist who accidentally killed a migrant as he swerved at 40mph to avoid a mob pelting cars with stones last night spoke of their trauma.
The tragedy happened as jeweller Nafthali Reichman, 63, and son Abraham, 35, were driving past a large group from the Jungle camp on their way to the Channel Tunnel on Sunday night.
The 50-strong gang had been pelting vehicles with stones in a bid to slow traffic to enable them to sneak onto trucks bound for Britain.
Their family saloon was surrounded and attacked by migrants - some of whom are said to have brandished iron bars.
Nafthali, of Stamford Hill, North London, saidsaid he and Abraham “didn’t have a clue what happened” as the Eritrean “disappeared” under their motor near Calais.
“It happened in a split second, it was dark.
"Someone jumped on our car and broke the glass. He could have had something in his hands. He was on the bonnet and smashed the front windscreen."
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The father-of-eleven - returning from visiting his sick brother in Antwerp, Belgium, at around 8:30pm on Sunday - added: "Once the windscreen was broken, we saw a whole gang of migrants coming towards us and one of them broke the left mirror.
"Suddenly there were lots of people on the road around us.
"The windscreen was completely shattered. We saw 10 people coming after us.
"We knew we had no chance. It was unbelievably frightening.
"I saw a man lying on the floor. That’s what I saw.
"It was terrifying. We could barely see out of the windscreen but we just kept driving, without knowing what really happened.
"All I know is that is someone ended up on the floor.
"I just saw a person lying on the floor and he wasn’t moving. I realised it could be that someone had died."
"My son is traumatised. I am, too.”
Abraham will not be prosecuted over the death near the Jungle camp, cops said.
