A body was discovered on Saturday, November 2 in the morning on a beach in Sangatte, near Calais (Pas-de-Calais), where around twenty police officers and firefighters were present, noted an AFP correspondent.
He was brought back by the tide. This macabre discovery made by a walker comes three days after that, on Wednesday, of three bodies of migrants on the beach of Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, and the death of a migrant in an attempt crossing.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, then during the day on Friday, 160 migrants who were trying to cross the Channel on small boats were rescued, the maritime prefecture said in a press release.
60 deaths since the start of the year
On October 23, three migrants died in a shipwreck. The Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office reported at the start of the week a “interrogation” persisting on this shipwreck, due to a discrepancy between the number of people rescued and certain testimonies on the number of passengers.
At least 60 people have died in migrants' attempted sea crossings to England since the start of the year, making 2024 the costliest year in human lives since the phenomenon first appeared in 2018. .
