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UK govt slams anti-migrant protests after unusual Channel crossing

UK govt slams anti-migrant protests after unusual Channel crossing

By GhanaSummary NewsroomSouth Africa

On Sunday, Britain’s coastguard rescued a boat carrying 140 people that French authorities said had departed from Baie de Seine in Normandy, a couple of hundred kilometres southwest of Calais.

Britain’s government on Monday condemned demonstrators who tried to block the arrival of migrants in a part of southern England that authorities fear is becoming a new route for small boat crossings.

Britain has been grappling with how to curb the perilous small boat journeys, which have seen tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving annually on southeast England’s coast since in recent years.

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