Gérald Darmanin called for “reestablishing a classic migratory relationship with our British friend and neighbor”, a few hours after a fatal shipwreck in the English Channel. The French Minister of the Interior spoke this Tuesday, September 3 from Boulogne-sur-Mer after the death of at least 12 migrants, including children, who were trying to reach England on board a boat. Several other people were injured.
During his trip to Pas-de-Calais, Gérald Darmanin recalled that France has been calling for “a migration treaty between Great Britain and the European Union” for two years, while the recently elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged shortly afterwards to “give new impetus” to the relationship between London and Paris. Indicating that the victims are “probably people from the Horn of Africa”, the minister recalled that those who attempt the crossing to the English coast do so to “join a family, to work there sometimes in conditions that are not acceptable in France”.
These people “want to go to Great Britain, and it is not the tens of millions of euros that we negotiate each year with our British friends and who only pay a third of what we spend,” that will stop illegal departures, he continued. Gérald Darmanin also stressed “the determination of our country to welcome people who are on our soil and who ask […] Read more
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