An inanimate body was discovered in Marck (Pas-de-Calais) this Sunday, November 17. An investigation was opened to determine the causes of the death of the victim who has not been identified.
A lifeless body was discovered on a beach in Marck (Pas-de-Calais) this Sunday, November 17, BFM Grand Littoral learned, confirming information from La Voix du Nord.
“It was very altered and no immediate identification was possible,” indicates the public prosecutor, Guirec Le Bras. The victim has not yet been identified.
A link with a planned shipwreck
An investigation was opened to determine the causes of death. The investigation was entrusted to the Calais police station, which will also have the mission of identifying the victim, who could be linked to a shipwreck of exiles.
Eleven bodies were recovered in the Channel or on the coast between the end of October and the beginning of November, according to a count made by the AFP from official sources, in a context of recurring deadly shipwrecks during clandestine crossings in recent weeks.
The death toll from the Channel crossings, historically deadly this year, is estimated at around 70 missing. This is the deadliest death toll since the start in 2018 of these clandestine crossings aboard makeshift boats nicknamed “small boats”, inflatable boats that smugglers overload with passengers, often without life jackets.
