-Removed-BECAUSE THEY SPEAK ENGLISH NOT FRENCH. If it was just physical harm they were fleeing they would stay in Greece or Italy.
Try to get it through your skull that they the UK in mind when they left their own country. Given that we probably helped to blow their country and lives to smithereens why should they go to France or Germany and struggle with language issues when they can hop across the channel.
Do you think the people smugglers tell them how dangerous it is when they take their money?