{"id":1057,"date":"2021-11-25T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2021-11-25T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:01:42","slug":"a-migrant-boat-capsized-off-the-coast-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"A MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZED OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At least 31 migrants<\/strong> have died <\/strong>after an inflatable boat capsized today (24 November 2021)<\/strong> in the waters of the Strait de Calais <\/strong>off the coast of France<\/strong>, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen <\/strong>said the numbers were not final.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Darmanen <\/strong>added that French police <\/strong>had arrested four people <\/strong>suspected of involvement <\/strong>in the incident<\/strong>. The Minister condemned the trafficking networks <\/strong>that organize <\/strong>these dangerous voyages<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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French police are investigating the case<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is estimated that about 30 people sailed<\/strong> on the inflatable boat<\/strong>. The nationality <\/strong>of the dead <\/strong>has not been announced yet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman <\/strong>for Downing Street 10 <\/strong>said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson <\/strong>would convene an emergency <\/strong>government meeting <\/strong>on the issue of migration across the English Channel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated 22,000 people <\/strong>have reached the UK <\/strong>in small boats <\/strong>this year, more than double <\/strong>the number in 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least 31 migrants have died after an inflatable boat capsized today (24 November 2021) in the waters of the Strait de Calais off the coast of France, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen said the numbers were not final. Darmanen added that French police had arrested four people suspected of involvement in the incident. The… Continue reading A MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZED OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}