Two navy ships and two SNSM canoes intervened off the Strait of Pas-de-Calais. Refugees were trying to join England on fortune boats.
Le Monde with AFP
This time, the worst could be avoided. One hundred and thirty-eight migrants, in difficulty when they were trying to join England on fortune boats, were rescued Thursday, December 16 off the Strait of Pas-de-Calais, announced Friday the Maritime Prefecture.
“Thursday, December 16, the gray-nose monitoring and rescue operational center is informed that many boats tempting to cross the handle are in difficulty in the Strait,” says the Maritime Préfecture of the Channel and the North Sea in a statement.
Two national navy ships and two canots of the National Sea Rescue Society (SNSM), respectively Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) and Dunkirk (North), intervened To recover the 138 shipwrecked and bring them back to dock.
The latter were supported by the border policies (PAF) ports of Gravelines, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer, and the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS).
Twenty-seven migrants had found death on November 24 in the sinking of a boat in the sleeve, the most murderer since these attempts of crossing were mutilated, from 2018.