The body of a Yemeni man aged around twenty was discovered Wednesday morning on a French beach facing England, from where illegal boats regularly depart to cross the Channel in very precarious conditions. The body was on the sand, not far from the water, surrounded by around ten police officers, an AFP photographer noted on site. “He is a young man in his twenties of Yemeni nationality”discovered by CRS, the Pas-de-Calais prefecture told AFP.
Bodies have been found washed up repeatedly in recent months on the department’s beaches after shipwrecks or chaotic departures towards Great Britain.
After a record year for the number of deaths in the Channel, illegal crossings continue in the middle of winter. On Monday, French emergency services took care of 84 people whose boat had found itself in difficulty, reported the Channel and North Sea maritime prefecture.
-According to the report from the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, at least 77 migrants died in 2024 while trying to reach England aboard small boats, a record since the start of this type of crossing in 2018. January 11 , a 19-year-old Syrian boy died during an attempted crossing, “probably crushed” by other migrants in the crowd of departure, according to the prefecture.
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