During the night from Thursday to Friday, a tragedy was again narrowly avoided in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais.
While a hundred migrants were in difficulty during an attempt to reach Great Britain aboard makeshift boats, gendarmes on surveillance rescued around fifteen children, some of whom had fallen into the water. .
During the night, a gendarmerie patrol was in surveillance operation of the coast, at the level of the beach of Camiers, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, when they witnessed the attempt to take the sea of a hundred migrants .
Among them, “15 children and adolescents, aged 1 to 16, were in difficulty”, specifies the prefecture.
A 5-year-old girl resuscitated by a policeman
The soldiers immediately came to their aid by getting into the water.
The 15 children were brought back to the beach.
A 5-year-old girl was pulled unconscious from the water by a gendarme, who was able to resuscitate her.
All in a state of hypothermia, they were taken care of by the firefighters and transported to the hospital center of Rang-du-Fliers.
“Their vital prognosis is not engaged”, adds the prefecture.
In addition, 37 other migrants “were sheltered in a room in Camiers” and were able to benefit from “dry clothes.
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