00:01Emergency crews gathered at the port of Calais after three migrants died, trying to cross the English Channel to Britain.
00:08Two women in their 30s and a 10-year-old boy, believed to be Eritrean, died in what appears to
00:15have been a crush aboard an overcrowded dinghy.
00:22In any case, these are not drownings, these are deaths by crushing. From the first reports from the emergency services,
00:29we understand there were risks involved.
00:31Clearly, things were not straightforward on board the boat among the migrants, but I don't know any more than that,
00:37and it's not for me to say.
00:40France has long been a transit point for migrants hoping to reach Britain. Authorities say increasingly they are taking greater
00:47risks, launching dangerous channel crossings from more distant locations.
00:54We can also see that because once again of this police presence along the coastline, people are setting off to
01:00sea ever further from the British shores, further south.
01:03In France, there were departures last week from Eritrean, involving 33 hours of sailing. The length of these crossings also
01:11increases the risks people are taking.
01:13And then there is also the number of people on board, which keeps rising. In recent months, there have been
01:20instances of so-called longboats, with more than 150 or even over 200 people on board a single craft.
01:31As of last week's Sunday, around 19,135 people have crossed the channel from France this year, a 42 percent
01:40drop compared to the same period in 2025.
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