in this Channel migrant camp, the threat of being sent back to Rwanda by the United Kingdom deters no one

While the British Parliament has adopted a law allowing the expulsion of migrants who arrived illegally in England to Rwanda, the candidates for departure who are waiting in Pas-de-Calais are not abandoning their plan to reach the English shores.

After months of battle, the British Parliament approved on Tuesday April 23 the bill allowing the expulsion of asylum seekers who entered the United Kingdom illegally to Rwanda. But neither this decision, nor the news of the tragedy that occurred in Wimereux with the death of five people who tried to reach the English coast from Loon-Plage, deters the candidates for departure who are waiting at the camp in this commune in Pas-de-Calais. .

An association comes to distribute clothes and shoes to the women of the Loon-Plage and Manmat camp, an Indian who has been in France for a few months comes to fill two jerrycans with water. For this man,‘British Eldorado remains the number one priority, “to ensure a better future for our families, for our children”he assures.

“The English will never let that happen”

Neither the five deaths after the shipwreck which occurred on Tuesday April 23, which he and his friend describe as “terrible news for all migrants”, nor the prospect of being sent to Rwanda will stop them. They have already tried three times to pass in England and are betting that the bill will not be implemented. “The English will never let that happen”, does he think. And to specify: “In any case, as soon as the weather is good I try to go to England again. I’m taking the risk. God will save me.“