French mayor blames UK for Channel-crossing deaths at weekend
by Lisa O'Carroll and Diane Taylor from on (#6HVXD)
Lax employment law cited as motivation for ice-cold crossing in which five people died off Wimereux
The mayor of the French seaside resort where five people died off the coast trying to reach the UK has blamed the British immigration system for the crisis that engulfed the town at the weekend.
What's happening today is their fault," said Jean-Luc Dubaele, the mayor of Wimereux, claiming Britain was offering monts et merveilles", a French expression meaning they were promising the world.
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