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About 20 inflatable motor boats are moored in the port of Dover.
These are some of the 220 boats seized since the beginning of the year by British officers responsible for arresting migrants trying to reach the United Kingdom illegally via the English Channel.
On these boats of about 12 meters long and one meter fifty wide, there are on average between 40 and 60 migrants taken by smugglers.
The boats are kept as exhibits by the investigators of the Ministry of the Interior.
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'We once rescued 84 people on one boat
,' reports a Home Office officer.
No migrant is present to tell the exact conditions under which these high-risk expeditions are carried out.
However, the smell of urine that emanates from the inflatable boats gives one to imagine what the passengers of these boats endure during the crossing.
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