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> 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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