The Pas-de-Calais police have announced that they have prevented several attempts to cross migrants to England overnight from Thursday to Friday, while the number of exiles who have made this perilous sea crossing since the beginning of the year reached a new record.
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Last night in Ambleteuse, Marck and Wimereux, the police thwarted 3 attempts at illegal sea crossings of #migrants to England.
The nautical equipment was apprehended
, ”the police tweeted on Friday, September 23, with photos of inflatable dinghy and boat motor in support.
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About forty migrants were stopped in their attempt in Ambleteuse, 70 in Marck, 25 in Wimereux, and another group of 28 people were surprised in Le Touquet, the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP 62) told AFP. ).
The previous night, in Sangatte and on the A16 motorway, the police had intercepted “
two vehicles loaded with nautical equipment (boats, engines, petrol cans and life jackets)
” and 70 migrants, according to the DDSP.
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This week, an Iraqi-Kurdish network of migrant smugglers to Britain was also dismantled in an operation that led to a large seizure of nautical equipment in the suburbs of Lille (including 13 boats that can carry 50 migrants each , 14 engines and 700 life jackets), announced to AFP Ocriest, the central office specializing in the fight against irregular immigration.
Friday, six of these alleged smugglers, four men and two women, will be judged in the afternoon in immediate appearance in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The number of people who have taken this migratory route in small boats since the beginning of the year has exceeded 30,000, the British Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday.
This figure is already, three and a half months from the end of the year, higher than the total number of crossings made in 2021.