A body found on the beach in Sangatte

This Saturday morning, a walker raised the alarm after discovering a body brought back by the tide to Sangatte, a few hundred meters from the Descenderie, near the cliffs of Cap Blanc Nez. The Calais firefighters and the national police went to the scene. An investigation is underway to determine the identity of the victim and the circumstances of the death.

According to a source close to the case, he is a man between 30 and 40 years old. whose identification is made difficult by the state of decomposition of the body. According to initial information, the body would have stayed several days in the Channel. Contacted by AFP, the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office assured that the man's body would be ” African type ».

This discovery could be linked to unsuccessful searches carried out at sea this Friday. The crew of the patrol boat Cormoran had reported, in the morning, a possible body adrift off Sangatte. A Dauphin helicopter and several boats were mobilized for the search. The operation ended around 2:15 p.m.