a floating body discovered off Sangatte
A floating body was discovered Thursday, November 25 off the beach of Sangatte, AFP informed the Pas-de-Calais prefecture and a police source, who were unable to determine whether whether or not he was a migrant.
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The body was found “800 m off the beach of Sangatte», Indicated the prefecture without further clarification. According to the police source, the body is in a state of decomposition, which suggests that the death is not recent. A security perimeter has been established around the beach, an AFP journalist found. The mayor of the city must go there, he told AFP.
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This discovery takes place the day after the death at sea of 27 migrants trying to reach England on an inflatable boat, the most terrible migratory tragedy in the English Channel. According to the prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Guirec Le Bras, she did “nothing to seeWith this shipwreck. It is still too early to say whether this body is that of a migrant, he added, specifying that he had been taken to the Lille forensic institute. Three migrants were reported missing off Calais on November 12 after trying to cross the Channel on kayaks to England.