Human traffickers have again sent migrants to their deaths on unseaworthy boats in the English Channel, with France reporting five deaths after a dinghy capsized in the early hours this morning.
At least five people including a child are thought to have been killed in the English Channel overnight into Tuesday morning as they attempted, as part of large groups onboard rubber boats inappropriate for the crossing, to break into the United Kingdom. The large-scale crossings are organised by criminal gangs, who in return for considerable sums of money provide boats and equipment enough — they claim — to deliver their ‘customers’ into the hands of the UK Border Force, which brings those individuals ashore and processes them for asylum claims.
French broadsheet Le
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