A man, aged around twenty, drowned on Sunday morning in Paris after a fight between migrants on the banks of the Saint-Martin canal. A suspect was presented to a magistrate on Monday, we learned on Tuesday from a close source of the investigation.

The suspect, who presents himself as being of Malian nationality, lived, just like the victim, in the tents set up on the Quai de Valmy. The motives for the fight have not been clarified at this stage. One of them “admitted the facts and the intention of homicide’