“Do you know why it is so tricky to work on
'small boats'
?
Because it happens that the smugglers or their assistants on the boats brandish a child whom they threaten to throw into the sea, if ever the police prevent them from leaving the beach.
This confidence is the cry from the heart of a senior official who knows the case well and who does not seem to appreciate that the British question the effectiveness of France in the fight against this phenomenon.
The “small boats”?
These are the makeshift boats on which mafia networks pile up entire families of the poor, mainly Afghans, Iranians and Syrians, but also from English-speaking Africa (Sudan, Nigeria, Eritrea), so that they can reach the English coast from Calais. , Dunkirk or Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The migrant will pay for this perilous journey from 500 to 3000 euros.
These crossings, which allowed more than 25,000 uprooted people to cross to the British side last year...
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