Three years have passed since 27 people died in the deadliest migrant shipwreck in the English Channel. A tragedy commemorated this year when nearly 100 others died trying to reach England from France, including at least 71 in 2024.
Saturday evening, more than 200 people gathered for a commemorative march in the streets of Dunkirk (North), at the end of which 31 white roses were thrown into the sea. As many flowers as victims and missing persons found on the beach of this northern city on November 24, 2021. That day, twenty-seven bodies will be found after what is still the worst shipwreck in the Channel today. The victims are sixteen Kurds d’Iraka Kurd fromIranfour Afghans, three Ethiopians, a Somali, an Egyptian and a Vietnamese. Among the victims: seven women, a 16-year-old teenager and a 7-year-old girl.
The tragedy took place on the night of November 23 to 24, 2021. “ Please help me », Implores a migrant aboard a canoe around 2 a.m. during a communication with French rescuers. “ In the calls, we heard screaming, crying, people indicating that the boat was broken “, adds Jessica Lescs, lawyer for three members of a victim's family and two associations, Utopia 56 and the Human Rights League.Homme.
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