the body of a man, probably a migrant, discovered on the port bypass
At this stage, the investigation has “not made it possible to identify the possible vehicle at the origin of the shock”. The victim’s body was discovered “early on Tuesday”.
The body of a man, “appearing to be a migrant”, was discovered early Tuesday on the port bypass of Calais, possibly hit by a truck because bearing the traces of a “traumatic shock”, we learned from the prosecution .
“A body was discovered on the port bypass at night, in the direction of the port, of a person who appears to be a migrant,” the public prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-mer, Guirec, told AFP. The arm. “It is a man, who seems to be of age”.
“For the moment, we do not know under what conditions he died. What we do know is that this body” bore the traces “of a traumatic shock”, he continued.
An open investigation
At this stage, the investigation has “not made it possible to identify the possible vehicle at the origin of the shock”.
When questioned, the Pas-de-Calais prefecture only indicated that the victim had been discovered “early Tuesday morning by national police officers, on the eastern ring road”.
On January 15, an 18-year-old Sudanese migrant was killed in Marck, near Calais, crushed by the truck he had fallen from while trying to get on it to reach England.
A 16-year-old Sudanese teenager also died on December 15, falling from a heavy weight in the Transmarck business park, near Calais.
Faced with the ever-increasing locking of access to ferries and the Channel Tunnel, migratory attempts to reach the English coast aboard precarious boats have developed strongly from the end of 2018, but some migrants, in particular the most penniless, continues to attempt the passage by climbing into trucks.