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Channel: 113 migrants rescued over the weekend

2022-05-16T14:44:48.112Z


Several boats of sinking migrants were rescued over the weekend in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais and 113 people, including a woman...


Several boats of sinking migrants were rescued over the weekend in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais and 113 people, including a woman and two children in a state of hypothermia, brought ashore on the French side, announced in the night from Sunday to Monday May 16 the maritime prefecture.

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In high demand during the night from Saturday to Sunday and during the day on Sunday, the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue (Cross) Gris-Nez first hired a Customs patrol to rescue a boat in distress. carrying 40 people, who were dropped off in Dunkirk, explains the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea in a press release.

A gendarmerie patrol boat then picked up 38 other shipwrecked people and dropped them off in Calais, then a maritime Gendarmerie patrol boat and again the Customs patrol boat took care of 35 people, including "

a woman and two children rescued in a state of illness. 'hypothermia

', also brought ashore in Calais.

792 migrants for 30 boats

During the week of May 2 to 8 alone, the British authorities counted 792 migrants arriving by sea on 30

small boats

, according to figures published by the British Ministry of Defense.

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In mid-April, Boris Johnson's government sparked outrage from human rights defenders when it announced that asylum seekers arriving illegally in the UK would be sent to Rwanda, a deal struck to try to deter illegal crossings from the Channel.

According to the maritime prefecture, 38 migrants died in 2021, including 27 in the same shipwreck on November 24.

Source: lefigaro

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