Eight migrants died during the night from Saturday to Sunday during an attempt to cross the Channel off the coast of Pas-de-Calais.
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Claire Millot, vice-president of the Salam association in Dunkirk (North), pointed out on Sunday September 15 the “policy of our leaders” after the sinking of a boat which left eight dead on the night of Saturday to Sunday off the coast of Ambleteuse (Pas-de-Calais).
This, according to her, explains why “It’s more and more dangerous and there are more and more deaths” during attempted sea crossings to the United Kingdom. “These beaches are so closely monitored that instead of heading straight for England, they are heading further and further away, [depuis] Boulogne or Berck” in Pas-de-Calais, and even since the “Bay of Somme”she explains.
To solve the problem, she says, we must either “remove the illegal passage”or welcome them “so that they no longer want to go to England”She denounces the conditions “ignoble” from the Dunkirk camp where “There are no toilets, no showers, they are in the mud.” “They know that in England, they will be able to work.”continues Claire Millot.
She refutes the idea that France welcomes too many migrants.We don’t have five asylum seekers for every one. 000 inhabitants, in Lebanon it is one in three”she says.