HM Coastguard received reports of an incident at 3.40am on Wednesday and air ambulance also deployed
The UK government is “encouraging nothing” that enables people to stop making dangerous journeys, said the refugee and migrant rights programme director at Amnesty International UK.
“Unless the government of France and the UK will take responsibility to ensure everyone can get safely into a system…I’m afraid smugglers will continue to govern all of this, and we will continue seeing these dreadful tragedies,” Steve Valdez-Symonds told Sky News.
I’m just in shock. We said this would happen again and sadly it has. It seems that a lot of resources have been thrown into this rescue which is encouraging – it appears that some lessons have been learned from last year’s tragedy. It was disappointing to hear in the prime minister’s speech yesterday about small boat crossings that there was no mention of increasing search and rescue capacity in the Channel. It has been reported that the UK coastguard is struggling to meet demand and are overwhelmed. We hear about stopping the criminal gang but consideration of the human element isn’t there from politicians. This is a disaster. It really is.
People can die every day in search of safety and our governments are actually waiting for it. We can’t stand this situation any more. Safe routes must open now.
Continue reading…HM Coastguard received reports of an incident at 3.40am on Wednesday and air ambulance also deployedThe UK government is “encouraging nothing” that enables people to stop making dangerous journeys, said the refugee and migrant rights programme director at Amnesty International UK.“Unless the government of France and the UK will take responsibility to ensure everyone can get safely into a system…I’m afraid smugglers will continue to govern all of this, and we will continue seeing these dreadful tragedies,” Steve Valdez-Symonds told Sky News.I’m just in shock. We said this would happen again and sadly it has. It seems that a lot of resources have been thrown into this rescue which is encouraging – it appears that some lessons have been learned from last year’s tragedy. It was disappointing to hear in the prime minister’s speech yesterday about small boat crossings that there was no mention of increasing search and rescue capacity in the Channel. It has been reported that the UK coastguard is struggling to meet demand and are overwhelmed. We hear about stopping the criminal gang but consideration of the human element isn’t there from politicians. This is a disaster. It really is.People can die every day in search of safety and our governments are actually waiting for it. We can’t stand this situation any more. Safe routes must open now. Continue reading…