The senior French minister accused Britain of operating a labor market similar to slavery and called on London to open a safe passage for immigrants because the two governments continue to shirk their responsibilities. Drowning in the strait last week.
The criticism came hours after French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin held a crisis meeting with European ministers and border agencies to discuss the immigration emergency around the Strait port.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel (Priti Patel) Refused to attend the meeting After Boris Johnson angered President Emmanuel Macron Publish a letter Call on France to accept the deportees, and call on the British army or border police to patrol French beaches.
Darmanin stated that cross-strait immigration is “first of all a British problem” and the UK must “take its responsibility”.
“Today, people who want to seek asylum in England have no choice but to cross the English Channel. This is because there is no legal way for immigrants to go to the UK, and you can work in the UK without an identity document, which creates a demand,” Damanning told BFM TV.
He added France 150,000 asylum applications are accepted each year, compared to 30,000 in the UK.
French Minister of European Affairs Clement Bohn also hit back at Britain, accusing Britain of having “an economic model that is sometimes quasi-modern slavery”, which he said encourages desperate people to try dangerous strait crossings.
“We ask the British to change their [legal] Framework,” Bona told France’s Inter Milan. He said that the exploitation of illegal workers is “more common in the UK because of fewer inspections.” The UK needs “more humane” labor market regulation to deter immigration.
Darmanin, who gave Interviewed by The Guardian After the meeting on Sunday, it was reiterated that France is not prepared to be regarded as a “vassal” of the United Kingdom and was tired of double talk from the British government.
“I am very happy to discuss things…on the condition that we have a normal relationship and a spirit of equality,” he said on Monday.
France Convene a ministerial meeting Responsible for immigration from Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the European Union’s internal affairs commissioner. Representatives from the European Union law enforcement cooperation agency Europol and the EU border management agency Frontex were also invited to attend the hastily arranged summit in Calais on Sunday.
last Wednesday 27 people were killed in the straitThis tragedy triggered a shirk between London and Paris.
Patel was originally scheduled to attend the summit, but due to Johnson’s letter, he had posted on Twitter before Macron saw it, and the invitation was cancelled. After that, Damanin said that France and its EU partners have reached an agreement on new measures to combat human smuggling.
On Sunday, a French newspaper claimed that the British police and intelligence agencies had stopped cooperating with their counterparts in investigations aimed at tracking and arresting human smugglers.
this The Sunday newspaper said It saw a report from the Police Auxiliary Frontier (PAF) saying: “We must report that the British service did not send us useful or usable intelligence information… Our request was not answered… The information sent is not always Is taken into account”.
It claimed that the British intelligence service received the names of two human smugglers in June, who organized a group of Sudanese to cross the strait in December 2020 and had just left France for the UK. The report stated that the British service department did not acknowledge receipt of the information and did not respond.
French police said that they have uncovered 20 smuggling gangs across the strait, almost all of which were organized by Iraqi Kurds. They said that some of the heads of population transportation are located in the UK and Germany. They recruit desperate people and they can cross the border for free in exchange for working for the Internet.
“Ships from China capable of carrying up to 60 migrants are stored abroad (mainly in Germany), and are then transported to coastal areas by carriers who have little knowledge of organizational details (they are providing assistance). The task of other associates is to transport The migrants brought to the water or transported gasoline tanks and life jackets,” the report reads.
Bohn also criticized Britain Channel Fishing Permit Line, Saying “The British know that the ball is on their court”. Britain and France are holding talks this week, and Bohn warned: “If there is no large-scale gesture by December 10, we will stop the talks.”
He added: “Unfortunately, I think the failure of Brexit is concealed by the smokescreen that makes Europe a daily striker.”
