The Channel is crossed from the United Kingdom to France, too. Nearly a hundred migrants have been arrested in France since January for crossing in that direction. Some had used the UK as a 'back door' to enter France, while others returned, disappointed by their experience in the UK.
A total of 58 people, including nine minors, were picked up by French authorities in the Dieppe region on the Normandy coast on Monday night and early Tuesday.
Médecins du Monde has been organizing aid patrols to provide care for migrants still living on the streets, despite police dismantling multiple camps and relocating people outside Paris ahead of the Olympics. InfoMigrants followed one such patrol.
Across Europe, 76 percent of respondents reported occasionally concealing their Jewish identity, and 34 percent avoid Jewish events or sites due to safety concerns, an EU human rights agency found. Anti-Muslim sentiment has also surged following the October 7 Hamas attacks and the July 29 mass stabbing in Southport, England.
As calmer weather leads to more sea crossings, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has vowed to tackle irregular migration across the Channel by introducing tougher border security measures and funding to address the root causes of migration. The opposition criticizes Labour for abandoning the previous government's controversial Rwanda plan to deter crossings.
More than 700 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats on Sunday, the highest number arriving on a single day since Prime Minister Keir Starmer took power vowing to tackle people-smugglers.
Two migrants have died while attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat on Sunday morning. Over 100 migrants were saved at sea between England and France in total on Sunday (August 11).
Hadi Tiranvalipour and Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi had been training and competing in their home country, Iran, before both were forced to flee.
Dina was just 21 when she died, crushed to death in an overcrowded migrant boat off the French coast on July 28. Her family talk of her hopes and dreams, which now lie in tatters after her death.
Refugees in Paris devote themselves to the Albatros collaborative dance project, which evokes the various stages refugees often experience, from persecution to starting a new life.
Journeying down the Seine through the historic heart of a rainy Paris, cheered on by spectators lining both banks of the river, the largest-ever IOC Refugee Olympic Team made its entrance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday night in a spectacular floating parade.
A woman died and dozens of other migrants were rescued during one of the latest attempts to cross the Channel in small boats on Sunday, reported the French maritime authorities.