Overview
- French rescue services engaged in 24 operations off Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Seine-Maritime, saving about 220 people Saturday and at least 176 Sunday.
- Two Somali women died during a failed launch near Neufchâtel-Hardelot and an adolescent found unresponsive on a nearby beach on Sunday later died.
- The body of another migrant was recovered in a canal at Gravelines, and prosecutors in Boulogne-sur-Mer opened an inquiry into the deaths.
- Authorities reported multiple cases of hypothermia, and footage showed increasingly risky sea boardings, including children and a baby on overloaded inflatables.
- The year’s death toll from small-boat attempts has reached at least 27, while the UK logged 895 arrivals on Saturday across 12 boats, averaging about 75 people per craft.