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A court in Lille, France, convicts 18 people, including nine in absentia, for participating in an international human smuggling network that transported migrants across the English Channel. The sentences range from two to fifteen years in prison.
2024-11-5

One person is killed while attempting to cross the English Channel in a dinghy. Three other bodies are found on beaches near Neufchâtel-Hardelot and Équihen-Plage, France.
2024-10-30

Four people, including a child, are killed in two separate incidents while attempting to cross the English Channel in boats.
2024-10-5

At least eight illegal migrants are killed and ten others are hospitalized after a boat capsizes off the French coast while attempting to cross the English Channel.
2024-09-15

During a people smuggling operation, at least 12 migrants drown when their boat breaks apart and capsizes in the English Channel.
2024-09-3

Five migrants drown while attempting to cross the English Channel and 49 others are rescued.
2024-04-23

One person is killed and another is hospitalized after a boat carrying more than 60 migrants experienced difficulties as it attempted to cross the English Channel from France to the United Kingdom.
2023-12-15

Six people are killed and fifty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants capsizes in the English Channel off the coast of Calais, France.
2023-08-12

Four people are killed and 43 others are rescued after a migrant boat capsizes in the English Channel off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom.
2022-12-14

A record 1,295 illegal migrants cross the English Channel to the United Kingdom on "small boats", according to the Ministry of Defence.
2022-08-22