A body was discovered on the beach of Calais and two others were recovered at sea, on Wednesday, November 6, a day after the recovery of two other bodies in the English Channel, in a context of numerous migratory crossings, it was announced the prosecutor’s office of Boulogne -sur- Mero. Since Tuesday, five bodies have been discovered at sea, on the coast or off Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Guirec Le Bras told Agence France-Presse (AFP). In one week, nine bodies were found in this area.
Contacted by AFP on Wednesday night, the prosecutor reported “two bodies yesterday [mardi] in the sea, one this morning [mercredi] at the level of the Calais beach boardwalk, a [autre] doorps that were adrift in the sea around 11:00 a.m. and one last one at 4:00 p.m..
The prosecutor specified that the bodies discovered at sea on Tuesday and Wednesday were “altered and difficult to identify”but that the one discovered on Wednesday on the beach had “Documents indicating that it is the body of a man of Syrian nationality”. “In addition to forensic investigations, investigative actions will aim to determine whether these bodies may be linked to shipwrecks or maritime events with deaths that occurred recently, by determining the event in question.”Le Bras added.
“Political decisions kill at the border”
On October 23, at least three immigrants died in a shipwreck, for which authorities cited possible missing victims. The prosecution reported a few days after a “ask” persistent due to a discrepancy between the number of people recovered and some testimonies about the number of passengers on board.
On Saturday another body was found on Sangatte beach, very close to Calais, and three were found on Saint-Etienne-au-Mont beach, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, last Wednesday, the day he also died. a migrant in a crossing attempt.
At least 60 people have died in attempted sea crossings of migrants into England since the beginning of the year. This already makes 2024 the costliest year in human lives since the appearance in 2018 of the phenomenon of crossing the English Channel in small boats.
“The Canal recovers the bodies of people killed by political decisions on the border. “Our thoughts are with the families searching and mourning their loved ones.”wrote on Wednesday in the X the association l’Auberge des migrants, which helps exiles on the coast. “The year is not over and as long as border policies do not change, these tragedies will be repeated tirelessly”The association is alarmed.
between 1Ahem and on November 5, 874 migrants managed to reach the English coast on board small boatsaccording to the latest report from the British Home Office.
