The decomposing body was discovered at 7:45 a.m. by a fisherman at a sailing school, said the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office.
A body was discovered on a beach on Saturday morning in Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais), Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office.
The body in a state of decomposition was discovered at 7:45 a.m. by a fisherman at a sailing school, the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office told AFP, confirming information from La Voix du Nord.
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.
The sixteenth body found
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.
