The note from 10 Downing Street added that Johnson and Macron agreed on the urgent need to step up their joint efforts, with both leaders pledging to fight traffickers at the start of the Channel crossings.… They will also emphasize the importance of cooperation with Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as with other partners from the Old Continent.
However, from Paris Elisha quoted by the edition online from a british newspaper The keeper, made it clear that the French president is focusing on the “division of responsibility” between two countries, calling on the British Prime Minister to show full cooperation and refrain from using tragedies like those of the environment for “political ends”…
For his part, Boris Johnson again called on France to agree to joint coastal patrols – something that Paris has rejected in the recent past, arguing over sovereignty. He even stated that Paris’ coastal control efforts were “inadequate.”…
At least 27 people died in the wreck of a ship carrying migrants on Wednesday. Two people were saved alive. It is already considered the worst shipwreck in La Mancha since 2014, when International Organization for Migration started collecting data.
“It was difficult for us to convince some of our partners, in particular the French, to act as we think the situation calls for.… I understand the difficulties that all countries face, but now we want to do more together, and this is the proposal that we are putting forward, ”said the head of the British Executive, quoted The keeper…
“France will not let the channel [da Mancha] become a graveyard “, in turn, stressed the French President, who called for a ministerial meeting of the Union on the migration crisis and an increase in funding from the European agency Frontex.
French government meets in emergency
The French executive will meet in the next few hours to discuss a response to the migration crisis.
In turn, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stressed that “the answer must also come from the UK.”Last night, the French Interior Minister said the wreck was “very fragile”, comparing it to “a pool that fills a garden.” Gerald Darmanin also said that when it sinks, the boat will carry a total of 34 people – of undetermined nationality. The alarm was raised by a fishing boat on Wednesday afternoon.
From the British flank, Immigration Portfolio Minister Tom Pursglow pushed for joint patrols by border troops, British police and French counterparts. In defense of this latest shipwreck, it became clear that there was a need to deepen bilateral cooperation.
Natasha Bushat, Mayor of Calais, went further in an exchange of accusations, blaming the government of Boris Johnson. “The British government is guilty. I believe that Boris Johnson has cynically decided to blame France over the past year and a half. “accused of Bush in statements published by the French press.
arrests
Since then, five alleged traffickers have been arrested, two of whom have already appeared in court, according to the French government.
Britain and France are currently grappling with an unprecedented wave of clandestine attempts to cross the English Channel: 1185 migrants arrived in England on November 11 alone.…
More than 25,700 people have tried to cross the Channel in small boats this year, three times the number of crossings started in 2020.
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