Around 200 migrants tried to leave French shores for the UK on Wednesday – the day after 12 people died trying to make the journey, according to a Calais charity worker
Angele Vettorello, co-ordinator at Utopia 56, told the PA news agency: “The crossings, it’s not going to stop.
“Even this morning we saw more than 200 people trying to cross and have been stopped (by police).
“We see it every month… every death at the border, the people don’t stop crossing.”
She said a lot of police were at the shore, with interventions made during the night and into the morning.
Ms Vettorello added this summer there has been a “huge increase” in people dying in the Channel, and the last week was “really busy” for crossings.
“We know a lot of people who were stopped to cross and were back to shore during those seven days.
“We received calls from people in distress in boats in the Channel, we received for example eight calls from eight different boats on Friday.”
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