The maritime route between France and England is one of the most borrowed in the world. More than 40,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom after crossing the Channel this year. A year ago, twenty-seven migrants died for lack of assistance.
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During several separate operations, Two hundred and forty migrants were rescued at sea and brought back to The French coasts, between Monday 28 and Tuesday, November 29, while they were trying to join England aboard makeshift boats, said the maritime prefecture, just over a year after the death of twenty-seven Migrants in the Channel.
During the night of Monday to Tuesday, a canoe of rescuers at sea first rescued twenty-three people off Calais, said in a statement the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea (Premar) . “At the very beginning of the morning”, a patroller of the French Navy then brought assistance to sixty and one people, in difficulty off Leffrinckoucke (Pas-de-Calais).
“Thirty-four shipwrecked” from another boat were then recovered in the same sector, continues the Premar. All were landed at the port of Calais and taken care of by the firefighters and the border police. Engaged at the end of the morning with another boat in difficulty off Calais, a maritime affairs patroller discovered “all the occupants at sea, gripped at their boat flowing,” says the premar.
40,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom by the Channel
Using a semi-rigid, the crew recovered sixty and one people, including “several in hypothermia”. These shipwrecked people were landed at the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer and taken care of by the emergency services. A final operation finally made it possible to rescue sixty -one people off Calais, who were brought back to Dunkirk.
The maritime route between France and England is one of the most borrowed in the world, “with more than four hundred commercial vessels which pass there per day and [d] weather conditions [which] are often there difficult “, according to the maritime prefecture. However, always more exiles try the crossing. More than 40,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom after crossing the Channel aboard small boats this year, a record.
On November 24, 2021, twenty-seven migrants died in the sinking of their boat off Calais, the worst drama recorded in the English Channel. An investigation by the world revealed in mid-November that the gendarmes responsible for investigating the circumstances of the sinking question the behavior of French rescuers. The Regional Operational Operational and Rescue Center (CROSS) has notably refused to send a rescue ship, despite insistent requests from British rescuers.