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One life jacket for our whole family: ‘migrant’ mother-of-two describes the reality of trying to cross the Channel... including a skipper who gave everyone an electric shock starting the boat and waves so fierce she had to tie her children to her
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Widowed Kurdistani national Joan, 32, her son Zanyar, ten, and her daughter Sidra, nine, nearly died last week
- They were among 33 would-be asylum-seekers on a vessel that capsized at night
- They were rescued and French authorities put them up in a hotel for three days
- They are in a squalid camp in Dunkirk where they are planning their next attempt
- They spent around a year travelling to France
- Traffickers charge around £2,000 to smuggle adults over the Channel to the UK and around £1,000 each for children
- Nearly 8,000 migrants have attempted the dangerous crossing so far this year – around the same number as during the whole of last year.
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-01 |
