Despite the coronavirus epidemic and the dangerousness of such an enterprise, fifteen migrants attempted on Saturday morning to cross the Channel to reach Great Britain. An operation was carried out to rescue them while their boat was adrift off Boulogne-sur-Mer, we learned from the maritime prefecture.
The alert was given on Saturday around 4 a.m. by the crew of a fishing vessel. The sailors had just spotted a drifting boat, about 7 km off Boulogne-sur-Mer, with many people on board.
Fifteen adults and one child, all unharmed
The Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue (CROSS) asked the fishing vessel to keep the boat in view until the emergency services arrived. Half an hour later, the gendarmerie coastal surveillance boat joined the sector. The soldiers recovered the passengers from the boat, twelve men, two women and a child.
Shortly before 6 a.m., the migrants were disembarked at the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer where they were taken in by border police officers (PAF). They were also examined by the firefighters who could see that all were safe.
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