Four migrants hit by a TER in Calais
A TER accidentally collided with four migrants in Calais, leaving one dead, one injured in “Absolute urgency” and two lightly injured, we informed the parquet floor of Boulogne-sur-mer, Thursday, November 4.
The accident took place around 6:35 p.m. on the Dunkirk to Calais dependent railway, in the Dunkirk-Calais direction, the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor told Agence France-Presse (AFP). , Guirec Le Bras.
The investigation has not at this stage made it possible to determine the age or identity of the deceased migrant and of the seriously injured, but “a priori”, the two slightly injured “To be of Eritrean nationality”, he added. On Twitter, the Hauts-de-France vice-president in charge of transport, Franck Dhersin, a writing that the four victims are Eritreans.
According to the first elements communicated to the prosecution, “This railway line would be a (…) regular passage of migrants ”, who borrow it “To go to camps or elsewhere”. Seventeen passengers feel in the TER but “No one was injured”, according to the prosecutor. The prosecution has opened an investigation for manslaughter.
SNCF announced its side that traffic remained interrupted on the TER Calais-Dunkirk axis until early morning Friday. SNCF teams were still present at the scene of the accident, in a residential area located not far from the hospital center, found an AFP correspondent. This subdivision is also located near a migrant camp.
Multiplication of attempts
Over the past two days, off the North and Pas-de-Calais, attempts to cross the Channel by migrants on boats have multiplied. On Thursday morning, the body of one of them was found “In a 3.5-meter boat filled with water on a beach in Wissant”, informed AFP a source close to the investigation. At his side, two people “In a state of severe hypothermia” were taken to hospital. Two other migrants, reported to maritime authorities as “Shipwrecked in the sea” in the same sector, were finally “Found during the day on the beach”, announced Thursday evening the maritime prefecture in a press release.
The day before, a migrant died, another was reported missing and 779 people were rescued at sea following the sinking of several makeshift boats in the Channel, according to the maritime prefecture.