London, 30 May 2016 (AFP) - Two British were accused on Monday of having violated immigration law under an investigation after the rescue in the English Channel twenty people, 18 of them Albanian, announced the ministry of the British Home .
The two men, 33 and 35, will appear before the justice on Monday.
Eighteen Albanians, including two children and a woman, were rescued on the British coast on Saturday night after the inflatable boat in which they were started to sink.
Two Britons were also on board.
The British Coast Guard received a call for help on Saturday just before midnight on Dymchunc, a city across from Calais (France), and the vessel, with 20 people, was located on Sunday 02.00 local (22h00 of Brasilia collapsed).
The British authorities mobilized a helicopter from the town of Lydd and rescue boats from the coastal towns of Dungeness and Folkestone.
The National Company Maritime Rescue (SNSM) from Calais, in northern France, helped in the operation.
The interior ministry also indicated that a second boat suspected of being related to the first, was found on Sunday on a beach in Dymchurch, on the southeast coast of England, opposite the French city of Calais.
About 4,000 migrants, according to the French authorities - 5,000 according to various associations - currently live in the "jungle" of Calais, a camp that houses migrants wishing to come to Britain.
Last Tuesday, 17 Albanian and British had already docked in the port of Chichester Marina, on board a catamaran, before being detained by police.
In early February, four Iranian migrants who were about to be shipwrecked on a vessel in the English Channel were miraculously rescued thanks to another migrant who could reach the beach of Sangatte in northern France, and alert rescuers.
At the end of March, the National Navy rescued three Iranian migrants in danger aboard your inflatable vessel along Dunkerque (northern France).
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