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Nearly three months after the tragedy in the English Channel, the French authorities no longer deny having received a telephone alert on the shipwreck which was taking place between the French and British coasts.
This is information that sheds new light on the tragedy that occurred off Dunkirk on November 24, 2021. That day, 28 migrants on board a boat died while trying to reach the United Kingdom. United. Before sinking, some migrants manage to contact the French emergency services by telephone. Until now, the maritime prefecture of the Channel claimed to have been aware of the sinking only a few hours after it.
Today, this version is no longer valid. A reversal, which without being a clear admission, was immediately denounced by an association helping exiles. “It’s unheard of” for Charlotte Kwantes, national coordinator of Utopia 56. The maritime prefecture affirms that this telephone contact was “highly likely” and declares not to know if the phone call was made and declares “not having been aware of the distress of these people before the fisherman reported that there was a shipwrecked boat“.
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