- On Wednesday, 36 migrants were rescued while trying to cross the Channel.
- In five days, 125 migrants were recovered at sea.
- On Sunday, a Franco-British cell to combat smugglers was created.
Between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, thirty-six migrants, spread over three boats, were rescued in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais, off the coast of Calais, while trying to reach Great Britain, a - we learned from the maritime prefecture of the English Channel and the North Sea (PREMAR).
At around 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday evening, a boat for migrants contacted the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue (CROSS) to request assistance, the maritime prefecture said in a statement.
Three interventions during the morning
This boat, which had broken down in an engine and on which 19 people were, was recovered around 3:13 a.m. on Wednesday. Shortly before 10 a.m., the migrants were disembarked in Boulogne-sur-Mer where they were taken care of by the firefighters and the border police (PAF).
Also in the morning of Wednesday, at 7.15 a.m., the star of the maritime gendarmerie recovered nine migrants who were en route to Great Britain aboard a canoe. The alert had been given by a merchant ship which had seen the boat off Calais.
Again on Wednesday morning, around 6:30 a.m., the passenger ship Seaways reported the presence of a third broken down boat, still off Calais, with eight people on board. The latter were rescued by a Lifeguard speedboat shortly before 8 a.m.
A Franco-British cell to combat smugglers
According to a count made by 20 Minutes , since Saturday, no less than 125 migrants in 14 boats have been recovered by French aid when they were trying to cross the Channel.
Note also that Sunday, in Calais, the new Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had signed with his British counterpart, Priti Patel, an agreement creating "a Franco-British intelligence cell" based in Coquelles. Composed of six French police officers and six British police officers, this unit will aim to combat migrant smugglers.
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