(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 08 - The British government has asked France to increase controls on the English Channel in an attempt to contain the departures of illegal migrants, resumed in these days of good weather and calm sea. In an interview with Sky news, school undersecretary Nick Gibbs announced that Downing Street intends to make the route "impractical".
"We are discussing with French ministers how to prevent the migrants from leaving France in the first place. And then how to send the boats back once they have set sail.
France is a safe country so those looking dovrebbeprovare asylum to find him there, "said Gibbs. The prossimasettimana is planning a meeting between sottosegretarioall'Immigrazione Chris Philp and his French counterparts sullapossibilità to close the route Calais-UK.
In the last 24 hours two dinghies were intercepted in the Canal with 12 and 19 people on board. (ANSA).
Gb asks France to stop migrants in the Channel
2020-08-08T10:46:50.480Z
The British government has asked France to increase controls on the English Channel in an attempt to contain the departures of illegal migrants, which were resumed in these days of good weather and calm seas. (HANDLE)