“It’s like this every night,” laments MP LR Pierre-Henri Dumont

“It’s like this every night”, laments the deputy Les Républicains of the 7th district of Pas-de-Calais Pierre-Henri Dumont on Sunday November 13 on franceinfo, after at least 140 migrants were rescued in the Channel in just 24 hours, between Friday and Saturday.

“Today there is a focus because there have been a lot of them, there are extremely strong images that have been broadcast with migrants trying to take to the sea in the center of Calais while d “Usually they leave from sparsely populated or unpopulated areas. But it is every night that the SNSM, the police forces, the gendarmerie prevent migrants from dying in the Channel”he assures.

“We do not want to relive the drama of last November, a year ago, when nearly 30 dead were found in the English Channel.”

Pierre-Henri Dumont

at franceinfo

The Deputy Secretary General of the Republicans denounces the “business of smugglers” against which the French and European authorities do not act, according to him, enough. While the smugglers of these 140 people have not been identified, he claims that the smugglers are “mostly Albanians” and asks that it be again compulsory to have a visa to come to France from Albania.

He also recalls thatthe people who cross are mostly nationals of countries which could apply for asylum and which would be protected by the right of asylum. Today, it was Afghans, Syrians, Iraqis, Kurds, the nationalities which are in proportion the most protected by asylum. They are not in continental Europe to benefit from the right of asylum but to go to the United Kingdom”. And he sends the United Kingdom back to its “suction pumps”, believing that these migrants want to join this country “because it’s easier to work there, to live there in a community, and even if they are illegal, they can find work”.