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Ten weeks after the shipwreck that killed 27 migrants in the Channel, charities and rescue organizations fear that a similar tragedy could happen anytime. Despite bad weather conditions, people living in the Grande-Synthe camp near Dunkirk keep on trying to cross the Channel on small boats. InfoMigrants reports.
Four days after the Channel shipwreck that claimed the lives of 27 migrants, the French interior minister claimed that some migrants were resorting to blackmail and had threatened to throw their babies into the water if police intercepted them at sea. Aid groups in northern France are "shocked" by the remarks.
Crown Prosecution Service figures show only 61 migrants have been charged and 51 convicted since December 2019 for illegally entering the country and breaching the 1971 Immigration Act.
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