The victim, a 22-year-old South Sudanese according to the Utopia 56 association in Grande-Synthe (North), “went to the canal to wash”.
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A migrant drowned on Tuesday in a canal near the vast exile camp of Loon-Plage (North), west of Dunkirk, we learned on Wednesday August 10 from an association and the prefecture. . The North prefecture confirmed the death of a migrant “due to an accidental fall”.
That man “went to the canal to wash, according to other exiles, who called for help. But the help couldn’t do anything”, reported Anna Richel, coordinator of the Utopia 56 association in Grande-Synthe, to AFP. According to her, the victim is a 22-year-old South Sudanese.
In the camp located near this canal, “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. 300 to 400 people live there according to Utopia 56.
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 make people continue to take risks to leave” to England.
On the coast of northern France, mainly in Calais and Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk, hundreds of migrants live in precarious camps. These Eritreans, Sudanese, Iraqis or even Iranians, are regularly expelled, in the hope of winning England.