Newborn baby rescued after nine hours at sea

Video footage shows how migrants risk their lives to cross the English Channel in the hope of a better life. In inflatable boats, kayaks and small boats, set out on the journey. to me Sky News It often happens in the presence of the French police who do not intervene.

newborn girl

On Saturday, the channel filmed a group of migrants rescued by the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Foundation) after a nine-hour, potentially life-threatening journey from Calais, France, to Dungeness, Kent, UK. Among the immigrants was a newborn girl.

Watch the video at the top of the box.

The girl’s mother was so weak that she could hardly speak. She said her daughter’s name was Ayan, and that she was thrilled to have come to England.

The girl’s age should be between two and six weeks.

A Sky News reporter asks one of the migrants if the French police try to stop them:

– No. They didn’t say anything. He claimed they saw us leaving.

Traveling by sea is very risky due to heavy ship traffic, strong currents and low temperatures.

Most immigrants reported being from Iran and Kurds from Iraq. Many of them were wearing thin clothes and not many of them were wearing shoes either. However, it was the newly born girl who made the strongest impression.

flammable topic

The situation of migrants across the Channel is a strong topic between France and the United Kingdom. In June, the two countries signed an agreement in which the UK will contribute £54 million to France to increase border controls. However, the number of illegal immigrants embarking on the journey is increasing.

France’s Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, visited Calais on Saturday, and the information that French police do not interfere when they see migrants embarking on a journey across the canal is a grim backdrop during the visit.

Many Britons are frustrated that it seems so easy to cross the border through the canal.

And the French interior minister had previously asked the European border agency Frontex, which works mostly with border control in southern Europe, not to forget to take care of the coast in the north in the fight against illegal immigration.

He believes that much better monitoring systems are needed, including from the air.

An increase since Britain left the European Union

Since 2018, there has been an increase in the number of migrants trying to cross the canal.

Last year, according to the French authorities, 9,500 cases of crossing or attempted transit were registered. This is four times what it was the year before. Six people died and three were missing.