The Home Office s new immigration rules could see over 17,000 mainly women and child refugees prevented from reuniting with family members in the UK in the next five years, according to the Refugee .
The lawsuit filed in Paris on Friday claims that as the boat was sinking the refugees sought to contact British and French rescue services, who passed the buck.
Speaking from a park in France, Mohamed Isa Omar said: I saw people dying in front of me. Those of us who could not swim, drowned and died within minutes. It was so cold the water, so cold.