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France and Britain among accusers after drowning immigrants in canal: "Need European cooperation"
A day after the disaster in which 27 immigrants died, including a pregnant woman and children, the two neighbors placed the responsibility on each other.
"We had a hard time convincing them to do the necessary things," Johnson said of Paris.
Macron calls for European aid: "We are a transit country."
On the ground, another group of immigrants arrived in the UK
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Thursday, 25 November 2021, 17:06 Updated: 19:18
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In the video: Immigrants drowned in the English Channel on their way to Britain (Photo: Reuters)
France and Britain today (Thursday) exchanged allegations of responsibility for the deaths of 27 migrants who tried to cross the leaf in a rubber boat yesterday, in the deadliest drowning ever in the waterway separating the two countries. Although the two promised to work together to find solutions, the disaster comes against the background of long-standing tensions between the two neighbors over the Brexit and the issue of immigration.
Among the victims were seven women - including one pregnant - and three children, and two of the immigrants who were on the boat managed to survive. It is not clear what caused the boat to capsize, but French authorities have arrested five people on suspicion of involvement in migrating immigrants. "This is poor management of immigration," French Interior Minister Gerald Dermanin said of Britain's conduct. In addition, he called on other countries on the continent, through which migrants pass to reach the shores of France and from there to Britain, to help more.
"This is an international problem," he told RTL radio.
"We are telling our friends in Belgium, Germany and the UK that they must help us fight international-level smugglers."
He said one of the smuggling suspects arrested last night purchased rubber boats in Germany.
His British counterpart, Pretty Patel, said she would hold talks with him, hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson blamed France for the disaster.
"We have had difficulty convincing some of our partners, especially the French, to do things that we think are necessary in this situation," said Johnson, who spoke yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Macron, who yesterday promised that the canal would not become a "cemetery", said today that closer European cooperation is needed. "France is a transit country," the French president said during a news conference in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. "I also want to say clearly that our security forces are being recruited day and night," added Macron, who announced the mobilization of reserve forces and increased naval rescue operations.
Meanwhile, rescue volunteers and human rights organizations said the drowning disaster was expected because smugglers and immigrants take greater risks to avoid the growing police presence. "Exclusively blaming the smugglers means removing the responsibility of the French and British authorities," said one of the immigrant aid organizations. The organizations noted the lack of legal immigration routes and increased security on the submarine railway line between France and Britain, which are pushing migrants into the dangerous sea.
The canal is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. The currents in it are strong, the water is frozen and the boats are often under more load.
"This is a tragedy we were afraid of, which was to be expected, we warned," said Bernard Baron, who heads a group of volunteers from the Calais area rescuing migrants from the middle of the sea. "Smugglers are becoming more and more reckless, criminals, sending innocent people to the sea who want to get to England at any cost without knowing the sea."
Britain reiterated the offer to hold joint tours off the coast of France, in the Calais region, the focal point for migrants to the sea and from which Britain can be seen on a clear day. Paris, however, has previously opposed the initiative, and it is unclear whether it will change its position five months before the presidential election in which immigration and security are among the key issues. London has previously threatened to cut financial support to France's border police if it fails to stem the flow of immigration.
"We are ready to offer support on the ground, we are ready to offer resources," UK Immigration Minister Kevin Foster told CCB.
"We are ready to offer people to go there and help and assist the French authorities. We are clear on the issue: we do not see this as an issue that only France has to deal with, but one that we want to address together with France and other European partners to break the business model of these gangs," he said. poster.
Restoring control of UK borders was one of the main slogans of Brexit supporters ahead of the 2016 referendum on EU membership.
During the day, a group of migrants was observed exiting the sand dunes near Calais on their way to an inflatable boat.
A few hours later in Dungeons, she was seen off the coast of southern England.
According to a local source, until yesterday, 14 people drowned this year in an attempt to reach the UK.
Seven people died and two disappeared last year, while in 2019 four died.
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