MYSTERIOUS: Channel loc - What They Never Told You

Small boats ‘set for people smugglers’ seized at UK airport

The dinghies could have transported as many as 1,700 migrants, averaging roughly 68 passengers per boat

The Independent UK · 6h ago

Home Secretary Says Almost Every Woman in Northern France Awaiting UK Crossing Has 'Probably Been Raped'

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said women attempting to cross the Channel from northern France may have suffered abuse, while rejecting far-right support and defending protest-related arrests.

International Business Times UK · 10h ago

Two dead as French authorities respond to two separate migrant boat incidents

Downing Street insisted progress was being made in tackling the small boat crisis in the English Channel.

Evening Standard · Oct 5

Paris court jails six men for manslaughter over mass drowning in Channel

A Paris court has found six men guilty of ​manslaughter over the deaths of 27 people in the Channel in 2021 – the worst mass drowning on record involving migrants in the narrow waterway separating France and Britain.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 1

13 sentenced in Paris over 2021 English Channel boat sinking that killed 31

Thirteen people have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years in connection with the sinking of a boat in the English Channel nearly five years ago

The Independent UK · Sep 30

UK-France 'one in, one out' migrant exchange deal is scrapped

A British-French agreement aimed at reducing the number of people trying to cross the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, London said Wednesday. The pilot programme was intended to break the business model of "people smugglers" by exchanging undocumented migrants who had made the crossing for people who…

France 24 · Sep 30

UK-France deal aimed at reducing number of migrants crossing Channel in small boats is scrapped

The U.K. government has scrapped a pilot program with France designed to curb migrant crossings in the English Channel

The Independent UK · Sep 30

UK-France ‘one in, one out’ Channel migrant deal ends – what it means

IN FULL

The Independent UK · Sep 30

French court jails six men for manslaughter over mass drowning in Channel

Seven others found guilty of lesser charges in connection to incident in 2021 when inflatable dinghy sank killing at least 27 people with four more still missing

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30

France and UK scrap migrant exchange deal after one-year trial

A year-old deal between France and Britain to return migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats has come to an end, the UK interior ministry said Wednesday.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 30