Boat punctured on the French coast.

Ouch, maybe I was a little too keen as I wrote the OP...

(I do take your point, Primrose, but it's actually interesting to read both, there are different people and its worth 2 discussions - putting them together would be chaos maybe?)

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Primrose53

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Yes, the title on this thread is preferable. I missed the first thread.
I'm currently spending the summer here in France, so I am listening first hand to news here about the 300 metres proposition.
Sometimes things get lost in translation in English newspapers.

And it has the punch of the picture in too, one picture, a thousand words....

As I said on another thread, do you remember the Kosovans who came here to escape that war in the 1990's?
They stayed for as long as they had to, then went back home when the war ended. I remember seeing the convoy of buses, on the news, heading out.
So, the answer to 'asylum seeking' is simple...stop the wars. But unfortunately, not simple to achieve.

The radio report I heard indicated the man directing people was one of the smugglers.
Police were right to intervene as the boat was overcrowded and danger to life was clear.
Let’s hope the governments discussions with the French come up with constructive ways of saving lives. Stopping these criminal gangs is never going to be easy or speedy

As others have pointed out, global issues, war, famine etc are such that stopping people trying to get to Northern Europe underpins this

Primrose53

This needs merging with a similar thread.

Yes, the title on this thread is preferable. I missed the first thread.
I'm currently spending the summer here in France, so I am listening first hand to news here about the 300 metres proposition.
Sometimes things get lost in translation in English newspapers.

This needs merging with a similar thread.

We've seen pictures before of course, but it really shows how dangerous it really is.

It was a photo from the TV, chosen as it shows it taking place, and cropped to get in as close as possible.

The main thing is our improved relationship with the French. It's costing us - but what other way?

The boat shown was a lot closer, it will depend on how sloping the beach is, maybe it will be a specified depth?

I heard that the boat was punctured because it was dangerous - though fgs, surely they're all dangerous once they get out into The Channel! The gendarmes dragged it back to shore and got the people off.
Macron's visit to London is going to include talks about the French police being able to stop boats in waters up to 300 metres I believe.

There was a man in the water directing people to the boat. 🤔

I imagine the people will return to their rough living.

The French may have agreed to processing people in the past, when numbers were small, but now? Can we actually imagine it?

I don't know, Allira, it wasn't specifically on the BBC News, that information may be available elsewhere?

Who was the man directing operations? Was he a smuggler?

It really is time that a safe routes policy was implemented. It would severely impair the smuggler's businesses.

We also should have taken up the French offer, made long ago, to allow us to process asylum seekers in France.

I wonder what will happen to the people wo were taken off the boat?