A body was found on a beach this Saturday, December 21 morning in Wimereux, the sixteenth body found on the coast of northern France since the end of October. The condition of the body does not currently make it possible to determine at this stage whether it was a migrant.
Macabre discovery on the Opal Coast. A body was found on a beach this Saturday, December 21 morning in Wimereux, in Pas-de-Calais, the sixteenth body found on the coast of northern France since the end of October, we learned from the public prosecutor's office. from Boulogne-sur-Mer. The body in a state of decomposition was discovered at 7:45 a.m. by a fisherman at a sailing school, declared the prosecution, confirming information from The Voice of the North.
An investigation into the causes of death was opened and entrusted to the Boulogne-sur-Mer police station, added the prosecution, specifying that the state of the body did not make it possible to determine at this stage whether it was 'a migrant.
This macabre discovery brings to sixteen the number of bodies found at sea or on the coasts of northern France since the end of October, after several fatal shipwrecks of migrant boats, according to an AFP count based on official sources. At least 73 candidates for exile have died trying to cross the Channel to reach England since the start of the year, according to the Pas-de-Calais prefecture. This makes 2024 the deadliest year since the appearance of the “small boat” phenomenon in the Channel in 2018.
