The 35-year-old man, who had been deported from the UK in 2015, was caught by Customs officers trying to enter Jersey at the Albert Pier on Tuesday morning.
A States spokeswoman said that the man stowed away on one of the boats run by the French ferry company Manche Iles Express arriving from Normandy.
‘A Turkish national who arrived in Jersey after stowing away on the Victor Hugo from Granville has been returned to France and handed over to the French authorities,’ she said.
‘The man was questioned on the Albert Pier by officers from the Customs and Immigration Service when he arrived.
‘It transpired that he was a 35-year-old Turkish national who had been deported from the UK in 2015 for serious drugs offences. He was trying to use Jersey as a transit point to get back to the UK.
‘He was refused entry into Jersey on the basis that he is subject to a current deportation order. He was returned to Granville on the evening sailing.’
A number of attempts have been made by people to enter the Island illegally in recent years.
Earlier this month a suspected illegal immigrant was detained after making his way to Jersey from France in an inflatable dinghy.
In July the JEP reported that a man swam across the harbour in St Malo during the night, before climbing aboard the Condor Rapide ferry and hiding in a storage area in an attempt to reach the Island.
Last year three Iranians – thought to be trying to reach the UK – landed at Bonne Nuit in an inflatable boat. All three were carrying counterfeit Swedish ID cards.
And in 2016 it was reported that French authorities had intercepted a vessel – thought to be bound for the Channel Islands – off the coast of Barneville-Carteret.
A few months later, two people were arrested after an Iranian man was brought into the Island illegally hidden in the boot of a car arriving on a ferry from St Malo. The man was given a ten-week suspended prison sentence but granted asylum to live in the UK. The female driver of the car was given 312 hours of community service.
