More than 25,000 people have made the dangerous journey from France to the UK across the Channel in small boats this year, which is more than three times last year’s total.
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Nov 2021. The Migrant Crossing Crisis Part 2
At least 27 people have died trying to cross the English Channel in a small boat. A fishing boat sounded the alarm on Wednesday afternoon after spotting several people in the sea off the northern coast of France. Those who drowned were 17 men, seven women – one of whom was pregnant – and three… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Migrant Crossing Crisis Part 2
Nov 2021. The Migrant Crossings Crisis Part 1
Despite Wednesday’s tragedy, people have continued to attempt the dangerous 20 mile (32km) journey across the Channel. On Thursday two more boats arrived in Dover, carrying about 40 people. This is all happening a week after a large migrant camp near Dunkirk in northern France was dismantled and up to 1,500 migrants were evacuated from… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Migrant Crossings Crisis Part 1
Nov 2021. The Migrant Deaths
The price to cross the English Channel varies according to the network of smugglers, between 3,000 and 7,000 euros. Often, the fee also includes a very short-term tent rental in the windy dunes of northern France and food cooked over fires that sputter in the rain that falls for more than half the month of… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Migrant Deaths
Nov 2021. The Migrant Crisis
The degree of despair that would drive you to clamber into an unseaworthy rubber dinghy in northern France on a cold November evening to set off for the English coast is barely imaginable. Particularly when you think about mothers having to persuade their children that this journey was not dangerous and that they would soon arrive safe and sound. https://vk.com/video677203037_456239184
Nov 2021. The Liverpool Bombing Part 3
Merseyside Police were called at 10:59 GMT on 14 November to reports of a car explosion at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. The taxi carrying Al Swealmeen had pulled up to the hospital and exploded shortly afterwards. Al Swealmeen, who had been picked up from the Rutland Avenue area and asked to be taken to the hospital… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Liverpool Bombing Part 3
Nov 2021. The Liverpool Bombing Part 2
A man who was killed outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday when his homemade bomb went off has been identified as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen. He was an asylum seeker born in Iraq who is understood to have converted to Christianity in 2017. Al Swealmeen was the passenger of the taxi destroyed in the… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Liverpool Bombing Part 2
Nov 2021. The Liverpool Bombing Part 1
A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up with a homemade device outside a maternity hospital in Liverpool, forcing the national terror threat level to be raised for the first time in months amid fears of another potential attack. Counter-terrorism police last night said they “strongly believed” the dead man to be Emad al-Swealmeen, 32, who… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Liverpool Bombing Part 1
Nov 2021. The Migrant Crisis Part 1
Five years ago, more than one million people crossed into Europe. Many of them took huge risks and embarked on dangerous journeys in an effort to escape conflict and find a better life. But the sudden influx of people sparked a crisis – both humanitarian and political – as Europe struggled to respond. Thousands died… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Migrant Crisis Part 1
Nov 2021. The Migrant Invasion at the Channel
In just two days 1,200 migrants have arrived in the UK, bringing the total number of Channel crossings this year almost three times larger than in 2020. The Home Office has said 695 migrants in 22 boats travelled to the UK. Priti Patel, sanctioned the first instalment last week after being told by her French… Continue reading Nov 2021. The Migrant Invasion at the Channel