a migrant dies hit by a train, a suicide according to witnesses
A migrant was fatally hit by a freight train on Tuesday morning January 3 in Calais, during a suicidal act according to witnesses on the spot, said a police source and associations supporting exiles.
“Around 10:40 a.m., a migrant was fatally hit by a freight trainβ, indicated a police source to AFP, confirming information from the newspaper The voice of the North. Witnesses “speak of a visibly voluntary act and heard the horn of the train being held upβ, added this source.
potential suicide
The shock is produced on a level crossing on the outskirts of Calais, said the firefighters, near a point of distribution of meals to the exiled tributaries on the north coast to try to rally the English coasts.
A volunteer “told me he saw the guy throw himself under the train. She honked her horn to let him know the train was coming, but he waved goodbye and threw himself off.βOn the rails, told AFP Claire Millot, head of the Salam association. “It was someone she identified was not wellshe added.
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According to a tweet from the association Utopia 56, the victim is a “Sudanese man in his thirties“. Confirming the death of a mancan be a migrant“, the prosecutor of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Guirec Le Bras, announced the opening of an investigation “for the investigation of the causes of death, including in particular the hearing of witnesses to find out the precise circumstances” facts.
The train driver wasvery shockedβ, according to the firefighters of Pas-de-Calais. On May 11, also on the outskirts of Calais, a migrant was found hanged in a truck trailer parked in a transit area for heavy goods vehicles en route to England, the most likely hypothesis being that of suicide, according to the floor.
More than 45,000 migrants managed to reach the English coast in 2022 by crossing the Channel on makeshift boats, a record figure since the start of the phenomenon in 2018.