France invites European ministers and the European Commission to a meeting on Sunday

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3:28 p.m. : The middle of the afternoon is already there, we take the opportunity to take stock of the (busy) news of the day:

• Booster dose open to all adults, new health protocol at school, mandatory indoor masks … The Ministers of Health and Education have made new announcements to fight against the Covid epidemic. 19.

• A meeting will take place on Sunday in Calais with the European ministers in charge of immigration and the European Commission, to “better fight against smuggling networks”, the day after the shipwreck in the English Channel of a migrant boat that killed 27 people.

• The number of category A unemployed (with no job) registered a sharp drop of 3.3% in October, or 113,500 fewer registered, to 3.377 million, according to figures from the Ministry of Labor.

the Goncourt High School Students 2021 was awarded in Rennes to Clara Dupont-Monod for her novel Adapt, published by Stock.

3:21 p.m. : British Home Secretary Priti Patel calls for “a coordinated international effort” to fight against the groups organizing the illegal crossings of the Channel, after the death of 27 migrants in the sinking of their boat. She claims to have reiterated, during an interview with Gerald Darmanin, the offer to send forces to patrol the French coasts, rejected by Paris so far.

2:56 p.m. : A meeting will take place in Calais on Sunday with the ministers in charge of Belgian, German, Dutch and British immigration, as well as the European Commission. Object of their meeting, according to Matignon: “strengthen police, judicial and humanitarian cooperation” for “better fight against smuggling networks”, the day after the shipwreck in the English Channel of a migrant boat that killed 27 people.

12:24 : Finally, the government wants the possibility of restoring border controls between the various countries of the Schengen area, in particular to arrest smugglers before they arrive in Calais, we learned from those around them. by Emmanuel Macron. These checks could be carried out in fairly large border areas, and not just at the border.

12:16 : The government wants above all to attack the networks of smugglers. “These very professional networks comparable to drug trafficking networks”, argues a government source to franceinfo. The executive also wants a strengthening of financial investigations.

12:16 : An interministerial meeting took place this morning after the death of at least 27 people yesterday trying to reach England. Among the avenues considered to reduce these tragedies, the deployment of more resources for sea rescuers, increase the number of boats and drones and install thermal cameras in the dunes to prevent departures, according to our information.

12h00 : It is noon, here are the main titles of the morning:

• The Haute Autorité de santé recommends a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine for all adults aged 18 and over, five months after the last injection. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, will hold a press conference at 12:30 p.m. to announce new measures to curb the fifth wave.

The State is ordered to pay compensation to the family of Remi Fraisse, protester killed during a charge of mobile gendarmes in the Tarn in 2014.

• A fifth smuggler was arrested after the death of 27 migrants in a shipwreck off Calais, announces the Minister of the Interior. Follow the situation in our live.

• Jean Castex announced new measures “in order to strengthen the protection of victims and the fight against violence”, on the occasion of the Day for the Elimination of violence against women.

11:37 : “Rather than blocking the borders, we must allow those who wish to apply for asylum in the country of their choice. They must be welcomed in conditions worthy of European values. Without border locks, those in exile would not take such dangerous roads and, if they do so at the risk of their lives, it is because they have no other choice. “

11:36 : “It is useless to first incriminate the smugglers or to attack the associations. The real responsible are those who refuse to welcome these men, these women, these children who flee their countries and seek refuge in Europe . “

11:36 : “It is time to stop these recurring tragedies. It is high time that governments ensure that exiles stop dying on our borders, in Calais as well as in Poland and elsewhere.”

The Human Rights League castigates European leaders over their reception of migrants, after the death of 27 people in the sinking of a boat off Calais yesterday.

11:29 a.m. : The United Kingdom wants to toughen its asylum system to curb attempts to cross the Channel. This project provides in particular for the possibility of sentencing smugglers to life imprisonment, but also to create a different status for refugees who arrived illegally, who would have very few rights on British soil. We tell you more here.

11:09 am : “The smugglers encourage their destitute customers to cross by telling them that it is a lake. In the end, it is not a lake, it is a sea with currents, with boats and storms, with fog.”

“Every day, we are involved” to save migrants, testifies the president of the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM). He denounces in particular the role of smugglers, who provide migrants “inflatable boats which are not at all suitable, which are overloaded”.

10:49 am : The number of attempts to cross the Channel exploded in 2021. Between January 1 and November 20, 31,500 migrants risked it, against a little over 15,000 in 2020. We explained to you in this article, published in September, why there are so many crossings to UK this year.

10:39 a.m. : Residents of Calais have expressed their anger after the death of 27 migrants in a shipwreck off the city. “Every week there are deaths, one of them recalled to franceinfo. There are dozens of gendarmes on the square watching the horizon. We have no solution. The dead are piling up, as they say. There is nothing moving. “

(FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP)