{"id":5781,"date":"2026-04-09T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:23:32","slug":"four-migrants-die-in-channel-crossing-attempt-as-france-rejects-britains-offer-to-intercept-and-return-small-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"Four migrants die in Channel crossing attempt \u2013 as France rejects Britain\u2019s offer to intercept and return small boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the grey light off Equihen-Plage, rescuers pulled shivering survivors from the water and zipped others into body bags. Two men and two women will never know if they were minutes away from rescue or from another country\u2019s shore. Officials talk of currents, hypothermia and \u201ctaxiboats,\u201d but the language of this crisis is measured in lives, not technical terms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind the scenes, Britain and France haggle over millions for patrols and the legal right to intercept boats in foreign waters. While Emmanuel Macron\u2019s government refuses UK cutters the power to turn migrants back to French ports, smugglers exploit every gap, launching flimsy dinghies as soon as the weather calms. With more than 5,000 crossings already this year and summer approaching, today\u2019s four deaths feel less like an accident and more like a warning no one in power can claim not to have seen coming.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the grey light off Equihen-Plage, rescuers pulled shivering survivors from the water and zipped others into body bags. Two men and two women will never know if they were &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}