Captain Haddock wrote:The French have no powers to stop boats being launched other than by-law stopping people taking unseaworthy craft more than 50m offshore which was brought in to stop mad Brits trying to cross in such as bath tubs to get in the Guinness Book of Records. Fact.
So the French have no 'endangerment to life' laws even when children are involved getting into unsafe overloaded boats, words fail me if that is true.
Listening to Macron this morning saying our government is playing politics is just pure hypocrisy on his part especially when his police arrested 4? suspected people smugglers within hours of this tragedy.