Serial dramas – Once extremely rare, the deaths of migrants trying to cross the Channel are increasing, with five bodies having been found in two days on the beaches and off Pas-de-Calais
The terrible scenario that the French authorities feared in 2016 of seeing the Channel transform into the Mediterranean has become a reality. Not a day goes by without makeshift boats overloaded with migrants attempting the perilous crossing of the Strait of Pas-de-Calais to reach Great Britain. And hardly a week goes by without deaths.
On Tuesday, alerted by a ferry to the presence of a floating body, the Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center dispatched a Navy patrol boat off the coast of Calais. And, according to the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea (Premar), two lifeless bodies were recovered on Wednesday. One spotted by a pleasure vessel off Calais in the morning. A second reported by a ferry in front of the port of Calais in the afternoon.
Unconscious in the rocks
According to the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office to AFP, a third body was found the same day, washed up on the beach in Calais. And, this Thursday, a new tragedy was narrowly avoided after a migrant boat ran aground at the foot of the cliffs of Cap gris nose. A woman, who fell into the water, was fished out unconscious in the rocks(…) Read more on 20minutes
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