Most of the victims were believed to be women, and many of the passengers didn’t have life preservers, officials said, with one calling it the deadliest migrant accident in the channel this year.
By John Leicester and Mark Carlson, Associated PressIn this grab taken from video provided by BFM Littoral, emergency services at the port of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, after a boat thought to be carrying migrants ripped apart attempting to cross the English Channel.
“Unfortunately, the bottom of the boat ripped open,” said Olivier Barbarin, mayor of Le Portel near Boulogne-sur-Mer, where a first aid post was set up to treat victims. “If people don’t know how to swim in the agitated waters ... it can go very quickly.” A view of one of the vessels from the French Gendarmerie Nationale in the port of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, after participating in the rescue operation after a boat carrying migrants ripped apart attempting to cross the English Channel.
The agency overseeing the rescue operation in the English Channel said the boat got into difficulty off Gris-Nez point between Boulogne-sur-Mer and the port of Calais further north. Sea temperatures off northern France were around 20 degrees C, or about 68 F. “We absolutely must — and this is a very important point — re-establish special relations with our British friends,” Darmanin said on Tuesday. He later told the AP that to successfully tackle smuggling networks, immigration legislation between the U.K. and France should be harmonized.
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