More than 120 migrants dead in the English Channel, the terrible toll of shipwrecks over the past 4 years

This Tuesday, September 3, at least 12 people died are in the English Channel, trying to cross the sea in a makeshift boat. The tragedies are multiplying.

Crossing the Channel, a risky operation attempted by thousands of migrants each year, continues to cause many deaths. The tragedy that occurred this Tuesday, September 3 off Cap Gris-Nez, is a reminder that nothing can yet stem this type of tragedy. At least 12 migrants lost their lives after their boat broke up at sea, the services of the Ministry of the Interior announced, and major rescue operations have been set up. deployed to provide assistance to all the shipwrecked. At least 70 people were on board the makeshift vessel.

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The scale of the tragedy is measured in dozens of missing migrants, only in the last 3 years and only on the Channel migratory route. According to the counts carried out by the Missing Migrants organization, at least 122 people have disappeared or been found dead while trying to cross the sea between France and England, between 2021 and September 2024: 40 in 2021, 16 in 2022, 24 in 2023 and 42 in 2024, with the provisional toll from Cap Gris-Nez. At least 13 children are among the victims. Let us recall that in November 2021, a shipwreck off the coast of Calais left 27 dead.

These figures are also probably very partial, according to the NGO which is trying to report on the human tragedy. “The Missing Migrants Project has recorded the deaths of hundreds of people for whom no identification information is available, which means that the families of missing migrants may not know what happened to their loved one,” the organization indicates. “For others, only partial information is known, but it indicates that men, women and children from countries in the Middle East, South Asia and most parts of Africa have all died trying to migrate to Europe,” she adds.

According to data from the British Home Office, reported by La Voix du Nord, more than 135,000 migrants have crossed from the Channel to on board boats called "small boats" since 2019.