A migrant drowned on Tuesday in a canal near the vast exile camp of Loon-Plage (North), we learned on Wednesday from an association and the prefecture.
This man “went to the canal to wash himself, according to other exiles, who called for help.
But the emergency services could not do anything,” Anna Richel, coordinator of the Utopia 56 association in Grande-Synthe, told AFP.
The North prefecture confirmed the death
According to her, he is a 22-year-old South Sudanese.
The North prefecture confirmed the death of a migrant "due to an accidental fall".
In the camp located near this canal, where 300 to 400 people currently live according to the association, "the conditions are terrible, there is a cruel lack of water, a lot of people are suffering from the heat, the dust", denounces Anna Richel.
The Roots association provides water every day in tanks but “there is no running water” in this camp, she points out.
"These conditions of non-reception mean that people continue to take risks to leave" for England.
On the coast of northern France, mainly in Calais and Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk, hundreds of migrants, Eritreans, Sudanese, Iraqis or even Iranians, live in precarious camps, regularly expelled, in the hope of gaining England.
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