The maritime route between France and England is one of the most borrowed in the world, “with more than 400 commercial vessels that pass there by day and weather conditions are often difficult,” according to the authorities.
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Neither the cold nor the risk of collision stop them: one hundred and sixty-six migrants, who were trying to join England aboard makeshift boats, were rescued at sea between Friday 16 and Saturday, December 17, reports The maritime prefecture of the English Channel and the North Sea (Premar).
Some 50 people, who were traveling aboard the same “difficulty” boat off Pas-de-Calais, were rescued by a ship of the French Navy and brought back to the port of Calais, according to A press release from the premar .
Another ship chartered by the French Navy rescued 31 other shipwrecked in the same area, deposited at the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Also engaged off Calais, a show of customs coast guard also recovered and brought back to platform 45 other migrants who called for help.
Finally, a canoe of the National Sample Sample at sea (SNSM) has assisted 40 people, in difficulty off Oye-Plage and identified by the Gray Nose Cross (Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center) .
All were taken care of by the firefighters and the border police, by freezing temperatures, which remained negative part of the day on Saturday in the department. 2> more than 40,000 migrants in 2022
The maritime route between France and England is one of the most borrowed in the world, “with more than 400 commercial vessels that pass there by day and weather conditions are often difficult,” according to the Premar.
However, always more exiles try the crossing. More than 40,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom after crossing the Channel aboard small boats in 2022, a record.
A boat carrying migrants between the French and English coasts was sinking in the middle of the Channel, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, causing the death of four passengers despite a major rescue operation. This sinking intervened a little more than a year after that, tragic, of November 24, 2021, in which 27 people had perished.