People smugglers are increasingly packing migrants on to dangerous DIY plywood boats, theipaper has learnt Aid workers warn of another looming “disaster” in the Channel 🔴 mollyblackall reports
looming “disaster” in the Channel.
The makeshift boats are cheaper than dinghies and can be built to accommodate larger numbers of people, increasing the profit margins for smuggling networks. The first such rafts were spotted in 2021, but there was a huge upsurge in the trend in 2022 and the use of makeshift vessels is continuing to increase. France
“But what we started seeing was purpose built craft. They’re built for no other purpose than crossing the Channel, and they’re much bigger, between nine to 11 metres long and two or three metres across. They’ve got no hull to speak of, more like a plywood floor. From videos taken by a fisherman of the Channel tragedy on 14 December, which killed four people, Channel Rescue believe the makeshift boat may have folded in half, trapping those on it inside.
“With the people smugglers, the only thing they’re interested in is how many people you can get on each one. So they’re going to get bigger and they’re going to get flimsier,” Mr Purkiss said. “We’ve seen them get bigger. We’ve seen 50 people in these things. Sometimes people are standing up, many without life jackets. We’re just waiting for the next time this goes wrong.”
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