The accident, which took place around 6:35 pm on the railway route connecting Dunkirk to Calais, made a death, an injured in “absolute urgency” and two lightweight wounded.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
An accidentally hit four migrants in Calais, making a death, an injured in “absolute urgency” and two lightweight wounded, he was learned from the Parquet of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Thursday, November 4th.
The accident took place at 6:35 pm on the railway route connecting Dunkerque to Calais, in the direction of Dunkerque-Calais, said the France-Presse agency (AFP) the Prosecutor of the Republic of Boulogne- over-sea, Guirec arm.
The investigation did not allow this stage to determine the age or identity of the deceased migrant and the serious injury, but “a priori”, the two lightweight wounded “would be of Eritrean national”, he added. On Twitter, the Vice President of the Hauts-de-France Region in charge of transport, Franck Dhersin , wrote that the four victims are Eritreans.
From the first items released to the prosecution, “This railway would be a (…) regular path of migrants”, which borrow it “to go to camps or elsewhere”. Seventeen passengers were in the ter but “none was injured,” according to the prosecutor. The floor has opened an investigation for unintentional homicide.
The SNCF announced on its side that the traffic would remain interrupted on the TER Calais-Dunkerque axis until the beginning of the morning Friday. The SNCF teams were still present at the scene of the accident, in a suburban area located not far from the hospital center, found a correspondent of AFP. This subdivision is also close to a migrant camp.
Multiplication of attempts
In the last two days, off North and Pas-de-Calais, attempts to crossing the handle by migrants on boats have multiplied. Thursday morning, the body of one of them was found “in a 3.5-meter boat filled with water on a beach of Wissant,” learned to AFP a source close to the survey. At his side, two people “in a state of severe hypothermia” were transported to the hospital. Two other migrants, reported to the maritime authorities as “shipwrecked by the sea” in the same sector, were finally “found in the day on the beach”, announced Thursday evening the maritime prefecture in a statement.
The day before, a migrant is dead, another has been passed and 779 people have been rescued at sea following the sinking of several fortune boats in the Channel, according to the maritime prefecture.