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A plane from the

European Border Agency (Frontex)

arrived in northern France on Wednesday to patrol the English Channel and help in the fight against human trafficking, a week after the death of 27 immigrants in a shipwreck, the French Government has informed.

"As announced at the intergovernmental meeting in Calais on Sunday, the Frontex plane arrived in Lille today to reinforce aerial surveillance in the fight against clandestine immigration in the English Channel," the French minister tweeted. of the Interior,

Gérald Darmanin

.

On November 24, 17 men, seven women, two adolescents and a minor perished in the wreck of their boat en route to the United Kingdom.

This drama,

the deadliest in the English Channel

, reignited the tension between France and the United Kingdom in the fight against illegal immigration.

The crew of the plane, offered by Denmark, "has a lot of experience and has already been deployed in other Frontex operations, the most recent in Spain," the Agency said in a statement.

The apparatus is equipped with "modern radars for the control of land and sea borders"

"We started with a single aircraft, but we are ready to reinforce it if necessary," explained Fabrice Leggeri, director of Frontex, according to the statement.

This European plane "will support the French, Dutch and Belgian police day and night," said Darmanin in Calais on Sunday.

The French minister announced on Monday that he will double the number of police and gendarmerie in charge of fighting illegal immigration and that he will create regional antennas to try to dismantle the trafficking networks.

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