The maritime authorities rescued Tuesday, August 4 in the Channel 38 migrants who were trying to reach Great Britain, during five operations, according to a press release from the Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea.
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First aid began around 4 a.m., when a British aircraft and a French customs patroller reported to the Gris-Nez Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center (Cross) four migrants in a kayak, about 5.5 km away. north of Calais.
Around 6:45 a.m., a ferry notified an inflatable boat with three migrants on board in the Dyck area of Dunkirk. At the same time, a fishing vessel reported a boat with engine failure off Cap Gris-Nez with eight migrants on board.
Then around 8:30 am, a fishing vessel alerted to the presence of three people hanging from a buoy in the Calais channel. Finally, around 10:30 a.m., a merchant vessel reported to the surveillance center a boat in difficulty about 18 km north of Dunkirk, with 20 migrants on board. All were brought back to the French coast, some of them hypothermic and taken care of by firefighters, then handed over to the border police.