Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat | France
According to French reports, a child is believed to have died while trying to cross the channel on a small boat. The body of the young man, believed to fall from a boat, was discovered on a beach in Northern France on Sunday.
Death follows the three other people trying to reach England on Saturday – a man who was rescued from a channel in the town of Pebbles near Dunkirk, two Somalia women and their body reported to have been crushed on a boat.
According to the figures of the British government, 895 people crossed 12 boats on Saturday and this year, small boat crossings increased over 33,300. On Saturday, a large number of transitions caused the healing in the air after the bad conditions caused a pause for the last six days.
The child’s body was discovered on a beach in Saint-étienne-au-Mont. The child was in a congested pit where 48 people were then fell into the sea.
An investigation was opened against the latest death by Boulogne-Sur-Mer Public Prosecutor.
According to Laurent Touvet, the Governor of Pas-de-Calais, there have been 41 maritime incidents on failed departure trials or completed transitions since Friday evening. Authorities, officials since Saturday morning 223 ship debris provides care, he said.
Touvet, “unscrupulous crime networks organized by these deadly transitions against the state is completely action. Police officers, gendarmes and all emergency services, continuing day and night efforts to save lives,” he said.
A post In X, Utopia 56, who supported immigrants in Northern France by the French Association, said: “This morning, he was found on a beach in the south of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, even though the attempts to cross the British channel have increased since yesterday, all the victims of the fourth death, all the victims of deadly policies, took place in this border.
In the past two weeks, England and France have launched a “one, an exit” agreement, where seven people have returned to France to deter them more transitions. A family of three asylum seekers, including a small child, came to England.
The British government has established English and French signs around Calais and Dunkirk, and warned that people passing the channel to England would be at the risk of returning to France. Since the agreement has been announced, the figures include 1,072 people on September 19 on 13 boats.
