Syed Bokhari and his bride Mona Dohle were pictured before they left to spend their honeymoon visiting migrants at the squalid 'Jungle' camp at Calais last year

The romantic picture shows a young couple in love as they pose in the summer sunshine on their wedding day.

Syed Bokhari and his bride Mona Dohle were pictured before they left to spend their honeymoon visiting migrants at the squalid 'Jungle' camp at Calais last year.

They were portrayed in the Communist newspaper Morning Star as an ordinary West London couple who had suddenly been inspired to make the humanitarian trip.

The newly-weds, both 28, said they were proud of setting up an organisation, London2Calais, to collect food and clothes for migrants from the Middle East and Africa who wait in the French port to slip illegally into UK-bound lorries and trains.

Syed said: 'We had stopped in Calais before and spoken to migrants. We decided we could do something.

'We had the idea of doing a convoy. We had a target of raising £500 to take two cars of essential things. Within the first 24 hours we had raised over £2,000.'

The moving story of the honeymooners with hearts of gold appeared on news websites all over the world.

Yet it turns out there is another, more disturbing side to this inspiring tale about Syed — himself a former asylum-seeker born in Karachi, Pakistan — and his pretty German bride, Mona.

He is a former Sussex University student activist who uses the middle name 'Red' to highlight his hard-Left political leanings. Aged 23, he was heavily involved in the Muslim Defence League, which is dedicated to fighting Islamophobia, racism and fascism.

Last December, he was detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 for three hours for questioning by British police working in Calais.

Mona is also a sophisticated political activist who used to be on the editorial board of the German-based Marxist magazine, Theorie21.

A multi-lingual journalist who works for a British financial and investment publishing company, she has complained on social media that she is being watched by Special Branch and was recently quizzed by British border police in Calais when her German passport was temporarily taken from her for examination.

More disturbingly, the two founders of London2Calais have marched with their followers alongside anarchist groups whom French police this week complained had encouraged migrants to riot in Calais

Both she and her husband have publicly blamed Number 10 for the fact that child migrants have died on their journeys to the UK.

Earlier this month, during a protest against Government immigration policy outside St Pancras station's Eurostar terminal, Mona told a crowd of banner-waving London2Calais supporters: 'David Cameron and Theresa May, they're killing people, and that's something we can't accept.'

More disturbingly, I have discovered that the two founders of London2Calais have marched with their followers alongside anarchist groups whom French police this week complained had encouraged migrants to riot in Calais.

The French officers said 300 of the 4,000 migrants, aged between 17 and 25, are under the influence of far-Left activists from Britain and elsewhere in Europe.

Using quasi-military tactics, they have given migrants walkie-talkies to organise themselves and chainsaws to cut through the fencing erected to protect the port and rail terminal from those trying to cross the Channel.

The anarchists, say police, pursue a deliberate 'political agenda', creating militancy among migrants, as they campaign for no borders anywhere in Europe.

Calais' police union spokesman Gilles Debove explained: 'The activists curry favour by putting up shelters and distributing food. But it is done so they can manipulate the migrants.

'These British citizens come to Calais to deliberately incite migrants to break the law and defy the French authorities. They are political agitators.'

And France's Interior Minister, Pierre Brandet, went further: 'The activists push migrants to riot, commit violence against the police and to stop trucks so they can climb in to go to England.

'Behind the plight of these migrants are . . . irresponsible people who exploit the misery of migrants for purposes which are not humanitarian.'

Riot: A refugee dodges tear gas as he runs through the Jungle as migrants clashed with police

It is clear that, increasingly, political demonstrations are inciting the migrants, and there is no doubt London2Calais is politically active. Last autumn, its followers joined a mass-protest rally of 2,000 migrants, anarchists and no-borders campaigners, which caused chaos at the Calais port. Afterwards, Syed boasted (again to the Morning Star) that this type of militancy was 'empowering' the migrants, whom he called 'comrades'.

He added: 'They were not recipients of our aid, but comrades facing a struggle which London2Calais will continue to support by any means necessary.'

Last Saturday, masked political agitators from Britain and across Europe marched through the town with migrants, leading to another chaotic riot.

The protesters waved flags, had fights with local residents, and some painted slogans on the famous statue of General Charles De Gaulle and his wife, Yvonne, which stands in the town.

The couple married in Calais in 1921, two decades before De Gaulle led the struggle against Nazism from exile in Britain after the German occupation of France. Yet members of Calais Migrant Solidarity, an anarchists' group campaigning for no borders, declared him a 'mass murderer, coloniser and chief torturer of Algerians' — even though, as post-war President of France, De Gaulle helped to hand back the French colony of Algeria to its people.

Migrants run for cover as French riot police throw tear gas after hundreds of migrants tried to board trucks bound for Britain near the A16 motorway near the site of the Eurotunnel in Coquelles, near Calais

Two days after this riot, the 'no borders' activists who had orchestrated the demonstration posted the names of 22 Left-wing and anarchist organisations whose supporters were involved.

The list included London2Calais, although Syed and Mona are not thought to have been there.

They were, no doubt, busy on other matters. For just before that latest protest, London2Calais was celebrating a successful legal campaign to bring three migrant children to the UK from the Jungle.

This is expected to open the floodgates to hundreds more young migrants waiting in France to get into Britain. On the Thursday evening before the Calais riot, London2Calais had staged a 'welcome rally' for the three arriving child migrants near St Pancras station.

Supporters waved banners and shouted slogans against the Government as the newcomers stepped off the train.

Last night, I contacted Mona and Syed to ask them to talk about the work of London2Calais. Replying to my email, Mona said the couple did not want to give an interview to this newspaper.

The truth is that London2 Calais's hardline political activity seems a far cry from the image of Syed and Mona when they set up the charity less than six months ago. Then, surrounded by hundreds of donated tins of food in a small London house owned by Syed's mother, they spoke of charity work and humanity.