According to the Parquet of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 32 people who tried the crossing Friday with the young victim could be rescued “healthy and saved”, but in a state of “hypothermia”.
Le Monde with AFP
A young migrant died, Friday, January 14, as a result of an attempt to crossing the Channel with thirty other exiles that were rescued off Berck (Pas-de-Calais), announced The parquet of Boulogne-sur-Mer at the France-Presse agency.
The victim, a man of about twenty years, is a priori of Sudanese nationality, “said the prosecution, who opened an investigation against X for” unintentional homicide “. The record of the North Channel Maritime Prefecture for 2021 reports 30 deaths and 4 missing, including 27 migrants dead on 24 November during the sinking of their boat off Calais, the worst drama occurred on this migratory path.
32 people rescued
Depending on the floor, 32 people who tried the crossing Friday with the young victim could be rescued “healthy and saved”, but in a state of “hypothermia”. According to a source close to the investigation, the migrants were on “a semi-rigid canoe”. They could have been trapped by the tide, some of them having been found on sandbanks.
The crossings of the sleeve on board of small boats reached in 2021 a number of 28,000 people, according to the British press agency Pa. The phenomenon, which has developed sharply since 2018 against the closure of the port of Calais and Eurotunnel, that migrants borrowed by hiding on board vehicles, poisons the relations between London and Paris.