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Channel: three migrants missing, the United Kingdom considers the number of crossings "unacceptable"

2021-11-12T13:56:30.457Z


Crossing attempts usually reduce in early winter, but this is not the case this year. A record was even broken j


More and more of them are trying their luck.

The British Home Office ruled "unacceptable" on Friday the number of illegal Channel crossings by migrants on board small boats.

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In total, about a thousand migrants made the crossing on Thursday, the UK Home Office said, confirming local press reports, bringing the tally to more than 22,000 since the start of the war. year.

The previous record, dating just a week ago, was 853 daily crossings.

"The British public is tired of watching people die while ruthless criminal groups take advantage of their misery," a spokesperson for the UK Home Office said.

Three deaths and four missing in 2021

Three migrants have been missing since Thursday after trying to cross by kayak, according to French authorities.

The research, interrupted Thursday at nightfall, did not resume this Friday, according to the maritime prefecture.

Since the beginning of the year, three people have died and four have disappeared in this arm of the sea made very dangerous by the density of traffic and strong currents.

In 2020, six people were killed there and three were missing.

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Illegal crossings are a regular subject of tension between Paris and London, the British authorities considering insufficient the efforts undertaken on the French side to prevent them despite the payment of financial aid.

The UK is preparing a reform of the asylum system which foresees treating applicants differently, depending on whether or not they have arrived in the country legally.

In the eyes of the British Home Office, this change will "correct the current system which encourages migrants to undertake this murderous crossing".

Usually, crossing attempts reduce at the start of winter.

But this is not the case this year, according to a report drawn up by the president of the Auberge des migrants association.

Source: leparis

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