>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.
ISeeYourBeaver OP t1_ixme7dn wrote
Reply to Calais migrants: French rescuers failed to help sinking boat by ISeeYourBeaver
>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.