France’s shipwrecked immigrants to claim asylum

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Series Details 18.2.01
Publication Date 18/02/2001
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French officials began considering asylum claims from around nine-hundred illegal immigrants rescued on 17.2.01 from a ship beached on the country's southern Riviera. Police have launched a major search for the ship's crew who fled after deliberately running the vessel aground on a beach near St Raphael.

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