Migrants attempting to cross the English Channel to reach Britain get on an inflatable dinghy on the beach of the Slack dunes in Wimereux, France on September 4, 2024.including women and children boarded a 10-metre-long dinghy on a beach in northern France and set off across the choppy waters of the English Channel for Britain.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to fulfill his pledge to “smash the gangs” who bring asylum seekers to Britain in boats and pledged deeper cooperation on the issue with President Emmanuel Macron in talks in Paris last week. Reporters interviewed eight survivors who had returned to a campsite in Calais, where many of them had been residing prior to their ill-fated journey, and spoke with another rescued migrant at the hospital in Boulogne-Sur-Mer.
Mansour said he first migrated to Sudan, where he lived for three years. But he found conditions similar to those in Eritrea, so he decided to head to Europe. Amna, 42, and her three adolescent children were among the Eritrean migrants who had gathered at Boulogne-Sur-Mer to try to cross the Channel on Tuesday morning.Fearing a similar outcome in other European Union nations, they decided to try for the UK.“Who throws their kids into the sea unless they have no other choice?” she said. “We just want to live and for to study.”
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