From a factory in China to an English beach, rubber dinghies are acquired by people-smugglers to transport desperate people
Plage du Braek, near to Loon-Plage, Dunkirk, where migrants who drowned in November are said to have set off before their dinghy capsized in the Strait of Dover.“Most of the dinghies, about 11 metres long, are designed to carry safely a maximum of 15 people. The smugglers push them into the vastness of the ocean even with 50 people on board,” said Salvatore Vella, chief prosecutor of Agrigento, Sicily, who has led the majority of investigations against smugglers operating in Libya.
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