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Homage to Channel dead a year after 'avoidable' migrant tragedy

Channel Gérald Darmanin France Le Monde

Crew members of a Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer lifeboat throw flowers into the sea to pay tribute to 27 migrants who died in a shipwreck trying to cross the English Channel last year, in Dunkirk. REUTERS - PASCAL ROSSIGNOL

Tributes and demonstrations have taken place in France to commemorate the 27 migrants who died a year ago in a Channel boat disaster. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin admitted French rescue services should have intervened.

Several boats packed with rescuers and local elected figures took to the sea off the coast of Dunkirk on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the most deadly migrant accident in the Channel on record.

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