The prosecutor specifies that the bodies discovered Tuesday and Wednesday are “altered and difficult to identify” but that the one discovered Wednesday morning at the sea wall of Calais beach carried “papers indicating that it is the body of a man of Syrian nationality.
“People killed by political choices at the border”
In one week, nine bodies were found in this area.
More than 60 candidates for exile have died trying to cross the Channel since the start of the year. This already makes 2024 the costliest year in human lives since the appearance of the phenomenon of Channel crossings on small boats in 2018.
“The Channel brings back the bodies of people killed by political choices at the border. Our thoughts go out to the families who are looking for and mourning their loved ones,” the Auberge des Migrants association, which helps exiles on the coast, wrote on Wednesday on X. “The year is not over and as long as border policies do not change, these tragedies will repeat themselves tirelessly,” the association is alarmed.
Enter 1is and on November 5, 874 migrants crossed the Channel on small boats to reach the English coast, according to a count from the British Home Office.
The Ocean Viking, the ambulance boat chartered by SOS Méditerranée, also took care of 178 migrants on Wednesday during two rescue operations off the coast of Libya and Malta.
