Watten (North)
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Using canals and rivers to reach the sea and thus avoiding police surveillance on the coast near the beaches: this is the new strategy of smugglers in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
A few days ago, in Watten (North), a village of 2,500 inhabitants, a shipwreck caused the death of a 7-year-old girl.
Rena was, with her parents and three brothers and sisters, on a small boat carrying 16 migrants.
As the boat was
"not sized to support so many people"
, according to the Dunkirk public prosecutor's office, the passengers all ended up in the water.
This unprecedented drama surprised everyone in this peaceful village:
“We had never thought of that
,” explains Daniel Deschodt, mayor of the town.
Watten is more than 25 km from the sea!
There are locks to go through and the boats we find here are made for river fishing, not for going to sea.”
However, it is this modus operandi that allowed migrants, around fifteen years ago…
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