Two Iranian men who walked through the Channel tunnel from Calais to reach Britain have been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with obstructing trains.
Over the weekend, more than 100 people attempted to enter the tunnel on the French side, forcing operator Eurotunnel to temporarily close it.
The two men who completed the 31-mile walk were arrested in Folkestone in Kent on Saturday afternoon. They are believed to have used a gangplank intended for engineers to avoid potentially deadly live wires.
Payam Moradi Mirahessari, 25, and Farein Vahdani, 20, have been charged with obstructing an engine or carriage using the railway, under the Malicious Damage Act 1861, and were remanded in custody after appearing at Medway magistrates court.
In August, Sudanese man Abdul Haroun, 40, was arrested after making the same dangerous journey through the tunnel, where trains travel up to 100mph. He was the first to reach Britain on foot via the tunnel.
Thirteen people have died attempting to cross the Channel since June, with an estimated 5,000 people, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, living in several makeshift camps around the crossing.
The latest person killed on the tracks was an Eritrean man in his 20s, hit by a freight train last week.
At its peak, more than 2,000 attempts to board trains or lorries, or to enter the tunnel, were being made every night, but numbers have fallen. France and Britain were forced to fund a raft of new security measures, including extra fencing and the deployment of more border force searches.
On Tuesday, seven people were rescued by port officials after trying to climb on board a moving ferry headed for the UK.
The Syrian refugees were rescued after swimming almost half a mile as they attempted to cling on to the vessel. All seven were hospitalised for mild hypothermia in Calais but later discharged, according to the local newspaper Voix du Nord.
