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At least three migrants have drowned in the English Channel, trying to reach Great Britain by dinghy. According to British media, it is said that bodies were seen floating in the water by surveillance teams and it is not yet known how many people may have drowned.
British media reports that the death toll may rise further as there are suspected to have been other people in the raft that sank in French waters.
The latest Channel deaths occurred on January 14, when five migrants died while trying to make the treacherous journey across the 21-mile Strait of Dover.
Despite the British government's efforts to stop the movement of barges from the Channel, the gangs still continue to carry out illegal people-trafficking activity in Britain.
"I can confirm the death of three migrants who fell into the water this afternoon off the coast of Cap Gris Nez ," said Patrick Leleu, deputy prosecutor at the Judicial Court of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Small Craft Operations Command Deputy Director Chris Tilley last week told the Daily Express that smuggling gangs have become "numb" to the death and misery.
" The brutal fact that I personally think is responsible for that increasing casualty rate is that with each successive event, the public interest in those tragic incidents diminishes. The more often it happens, the less it affects the business model. After the events of November 2021 [when 27 people drowned in the Channel], we saw an almost self-imposed halt on crossings. This was not just the refusal of immigrants to pass under those conditions, because the conditions were good enough to continue.
There was a real shock to the OCGs as well. But with successive deaths, it becomes more of an accepted risk. It can be underestimated. It does not take away from the tragedy of any event. But you can see how the constant coverage of this, somehow without contextualizing the intersection, the messages that immigrants are getting, becomes less of a consideration for them. Smugglers are numb to the deaths they are causing and they are looking to take advantage of this ," he said.
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