Nearly 250 migrants rescued in two days in the Channel

They found themselves in difficulty while trying to cross the Channel. Some 243 migrants were rescued at sea overnight from Friday to Saturday and during the day on Saturday. The maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea announced it on Saturday, November 20 in a press release published in the evening. These 243 migrants were dropped off at the quayside in the ports of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Dunkirk and Calais. They were there “taken care of by the border police and the departmental fire and rescue service”, writes the maritime prefecture.

The maritime prefect of the Channel and the North Sea had noted during an interview with AFP on Friday “a new acceleration” in November attempts to cross. These had already doubled in three months, while their pace slowed in the fall of previous years. The services of thea maritime prefecture had recorded 15,400 departure attempts and 3,500 rescued passengers over the first eight months of the year. “Today we have more than doubled these numbers, was alarmed Friday Philippe Dutrieux. We are at 31,500 migrants having left the coasts and 7,800 migrants having been rescued. “