The tone is rising between England and France in the aftermath of the tragedy in which 27 migrants, including five women and a girl, lost their lives.
Their rubber dinghy was wrecked on Wednesday, November 24, as they attempted to get to the UK by crossing the Channel.
For several months now, the two countries have criticized themselves on their respective management of their migration policy.
Present at the scene on the evening of the tragedy, the mayor of Calais, Natacha Bouchard, criticized the English Prime Minister, accusing him of not "having the courage" to take responsibilities and "to choose on his territory what is the immigration he wants to choose ”. "This drama which is the day too long is the culmination of successive failures, (...) the failure of Boris Johnson," she insisted. "We had difficulty persuading some of our partners, in particular France, to do things in a way that the situation deserves, in our opinion," Boris Johnson reacted on Wednesday. “We are going to ask for an additional mobilization of the British. Because I remind you that in this respect, we hold the border in a way for the British and that all these women and men do not want asylum in France ”,Emmanuel Macron replied this Thursday, from Zagreb in Croatia.
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However, the two countries agree on one point: the need to fight against smugglers, "primarily responsible" for this tragedy according to the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.
They therefore call for more international cooperation.
"We are ready to bring aid on the ground, resources and literally men to help the French authorities", proposed the British Minister of Immigration on the set of the BBC this morning.
