Europe 1 with AFP 11:13 a.m., January 14, 2022
A young migrant died on Friday following an attempt to cross the Channel with around thirty other exiles who were rescued off Berck in the Pas-de-Calais, announced the Boulogne-sur- Wed.
In 2021, the maritime prefecture of the Channel established that 30 people perished in the waters.
A young migrant died on Friday following an attempt to cross the Channel with around thirty other exiles who were rescued off Berck, in Pas-de-Calais, announced the Boulogne-sur prosecutor's office. -Wed.
The victim, a man in his twenties, is a priori of Sudanese nationality, said the prosecution, which opened an investigation against X for manslaughter.
A balance sheet of 30 dead and four missing in 2021
This is the first migrant death in the English Channel this year.
The report of the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea for 2021 reports 30 dead and 4 missing, including 27 migrants who died on November 24 when their boat sank off Calais, the worst tragedy to have occurred on this migratory route.
According to the prosecution, 32 people who attempted the crossing on Friday with the young victim were rescued "safe and sound", but in a state of "hypothermia".
According to a source close to the investigation, the migrants were on "a semi-rigid canoe".
They may have been trapped by the tide, with some of them found on sandbanks.
Crossings of the Channel in small boats reached a record number in 2021, at more than 28,000 people, according to the British press agency PA.
The phenomenon, which has developed strongly since 2018 in the face of the closure of the port of Calais and the Eurotunnel, which migrants borrowed while hiding in vehicles, poisons relations between London and Paris.