During the night of Saturday to Sunday, a hundred migrants were rescued in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais. They were taken care of by the SDIS teams and the border police.
Yet another human tragedy has been avoided in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, teams from the regional operational and rescue center (CROSS) Gris-Nez rescued 113 migrants in distress in the waters of the English Channel.
The hundred refugees were spread over several boats carrying between 35 and 40 people. Very large resources were deployed to carry out the rescue operation. The castaways were picked up and dropped off at the ports of Calais and Dunkirk.
Among them, three people, a woman and two children, were in a state of hypothermia when help arrived, reports the maritime prefect of the Channel and the North Sea. They were picked up at the port of Calais. As for the other castaways, they were taken care of by the border police (PAF) and the departmental fire and rescue services (SDIS).
Many resources deployed
The CROSS Gris-Nez regularly carries out search and rescue operations in the English Channel. Last March, he rescued more than a hundred migrants in the Strait of Pas-de-Calais in less than 24 hours.
In his press release, the maritime prefect of the Channel and the North Sea recalls that “the weather conditions” are “often difficult” in this place.