Editorial: Le Monde

• France and the UK, bearers of high human rights values, are facing a migration crisis with individuals trying to cross, and occasionally dying in the English Channel.
• The British conservative government has been putting pressure on French authorities to prevent more illicit sea crossings.
• Police brutality and indifference to migrants' distress calls has led to avoidable deaths.
• These issues unfold under specific agreements that delegate the surveillance of the British border to French law enforcement.
• The UK has agreed to pay France €543 million over three years to 'stop more boats'.

Conclusion: The repeating tragedies denote a need for relentless combat against traffickers and the absolute respect of human rights by law enforcement, alongside the revision of Franco-British cooperation terms and the posing of potential alternatives.

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