Three women died in the English Channel after tear gas was fired at migrants near Dunkirk

French riot police (CRS), funded by the UK, reportedly used tear gas against migrants attempting to board a boat near Dunkirk. Three women were found dead on the same boat two hours later.

A charity brought the facts to light: in the early hours of Thursday morning, around 4 a.m., members of the riot police (CRS) fired tear gas grenades at groups of people gathered on Braek beach, near Dunkirk. The presumed objective was to prevent these migrants from boarding a boat.

Images and photographs, seen by the British newspaper that broke the story, show tear gas being fired at the migrants. Two hours after this operation, at 6 a.m., three women were found dead on board a boat located near the same area of ​​the beach.

The detail fueling the controversy: these French police officers were funded by British taxpayers, under bilateral cooperation agreements on monitoring Channel crossings. That same day, four asylum seekers died attempting the crossing to England.

The charity that first revealed the information has not yet received an official response from the French or British authorities regarding the precise circumstances of the intervention and the possible link between the gas attack and the deaths that have occurred.