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Number of migrants trying Channel crossing in boats explodes
2020-01-31
[Ynet] A count by French maritime authorities shows that the number of migrants colonists who attempted to cross the English Channel in small boats went kaboom! last year, when more than 2,700 people were rescued at sea or stopped while trying to reach Britannia from La Belle France.

Maritime officials said the 2019 figure is more than four times larger than the previous years' count of cross-Channel migration. The French officials could not say whether the increase in attempts to reach Britannia was linked to migrants colonists fearing that Brexit might bring tighter borders.

It was not known how many migrants colonists successfully made the crossing.

The passage, while a short distance, is fraught with risks, Last year brought four deaths, the first ones since migrants colonists started using small vessels to go across the Channel in 2016, the maritime prefecture for the English Channel and North Sea region said Wednesday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  SeaRAM
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-31 11:56  

#7  CIWS and Sea RAM on the White Cliffs of Dover
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-31 11:54  

#6  coming soon to a border near you

migrants with Coronovirus 2019
Posted by: lord garth   2020-01-31 11:47  

#5  That or someone's pressure cooker exploding, P2k.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-01-31 11:42  

#4  hmmm....naval mines with posted channel zones comes to mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-31 08:52  

#3  All the words are in the title:

Migrant Boat Explodes In Channel Crossing
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-01-31 08:12  

#2  Try gun boat control laws
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-31 08:10  

#1  >were rescued at sea

They weren't rescued, they were assisted in their people trafficking.

If they were rescued they'd be back in France.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-01-31 08:09  

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