Crossings to Great Britain are increasing. Dramas too. A migrant in his forties was found dead on Saturday evening by firefighters in the Bourbourg canal, near Dunkirk, in the North, we learned on Sunday from a police Source. . This is the fifteenth victim this year.
“A boatman arriving to unload his cargo saw a body floating near the bank. Emergency services were called to remove the lifeless body from the water,” the firefighters also told AFP. “An investigation into the causes of death” has been opened, the justice ministry told AFP. The identity of the person has not yet been established.
Fifteen migrants died in 2024
Two weeks ago, on April 23, five migrants died off the coast of Wimereux while trying to cross the Pas de Calais Strait on an overloaded boat, bringing to at least 15 the number of migrants who will die in 2024 in crossing attempts. .
On March 3, a 7-year-old girl died in Watten, in the North, in the Aa canal, which flows into the North Sea, after the capsize of a small boat loaded with migrants. Sixteen migrants, including ten children aged between seven and thirteen, were on board the boat.
This shipwreck so far from the sea could be explained by the fact that migrants are now moving further inland, in order to avoid surveillance and move towards the beaches out of sight.
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