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ISeeYourBeaver OP t1_ixme7dn wrote

>Transcripts of emergency calls made to the French coastguard, seen by the BBC, suggest that desperate passengers were repeatedly told to call UK emergency services, despite being in French waters when they first requested help.
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>And a French police investigation, leaked to the newspaper Le Monde, appears to suggest that the French coastguard never sent help to the scene, despite a specific UK request to do so.
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>The BBC also heard evidence that another migrant boat was passed back and forth between the two nations' rescue centres, just a few days before the Channel disaster.

Both countries are sick of dealing with refugees and have been for quite some time, I suspect, and so you get this sort of fuckery.

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WexfordHo t1_ixmon6f wrote

This is going to get worse and worse until countries like Italy, the UK, France and Greece decide the public backlash is worth it and take a very hard stance.

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A_Lost_Desert_Rat t1_ixmr6t2 wrote

Kind of like what the Aussies do

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WexfordHo t1_ixmrgbo wrote

Probably a lot nastier than that tbh, Australia is protected by a LOT of ocean, Western Europe is pretty damned close to bits of North Africa.

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88rosomak t1_ixn2nfv wrote

Why did they swim in this boat to GB at first place? EU is very humanitarian but we can't spend billions of euros to stop suiciders... Why risk life to live in GB instead of France? Earnings in both countries are very comparable.

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[deleted] t1_ixnmeev wrote

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CraneAO t1_ixos75y wrote

I could make the same claim if I analyzed your heartless life. Pathetic example you display.

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HomeIsElsweyr t1_ixosgn7 wrote

Heartless? Whos heartless, the guy pretending to be a bearded minor running away from his home and leving actual kids behind only to become a career criminal or the guy who doesnt want pos like that to come to his country.

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autotldr t1_ixmmlic wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

> Transcripts of emergency calls made to the French coastguard, seen by the BBC, suggest that desperate passengers were repeatedly told to call UK emergency services, despite being in French waters when they first requested help.

> A French police investigation, leaked to the newspaper Le Monde, appears to suggest that the French coastguard never sent help to the scene, despite a specific UK request to do so.

> French operators continued - for more than two hours - to urge passengers to call the UK for help, documents suggest, even when a French patrol reported that the boat was still in French waters.

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