A migrant was "
found hanged
" on Wednesday afternoon, May 11, in a trailer parked in a parking lot in the Transmarck business area, in Marck (Pas-de-Calais), and the thesis of suicide is "
privileged
”, AFP learned from the prosecutor.
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The victim, "
of Eritrean origin a priori and aged around 20 to 25
", could "
not be identified
" at this stage, said the public prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Guirec Le Arm.
"
He was found hanging in a truck trailer, but a single trailer, which was not attached to any truck or device
" towing, and was "
parked
", he said.
"
The suicidal thesis is privileged
", continued the prosecutor, who opened an investigation "
in search of the causes of death
".
"No witness to the tragedy"
“
There are no witnesses to the tragedy
” apart from “
the people who discovered it in this trailer, and who alerted the CRS
”, he said.
According to the first elements, "
he died a few hours before the discovery
".
According to a firefighter present on the spot, the emergency services called around 4:00 p.m. discovered the victim hanged with the help of a truck strap.
The trailer was parked in the parking lot of the private transport company Scania, a fenced and monitored area located not far from the port ring road and the A16, noted an AFP correspondent.
According to several exiles present near the area, it was migrants who discovered the body and alerted the emergency services.
Several exiles have already died in recent months in the vicinity of Marck, particularly in this area of activity usually used as a transit area for trucks leaving for England.
In March, a 25-year-old Sudanese man was hit by a train while walking along the railway line.
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A similar accident had already occurred in November a few hundred meters away.
A train had hit a group of four migrants traveling on the tracks between Dunkirk and Calais, causing one death, one serious injury and two minor injuries.
Another 18-year-old Sudanese was killed on January 15, also in Marck, crushed by the truck he had fallen from while trying to get on it.
A month earlier, a 16-year-old Sudanese teenager had died there, falling from a heavy weight on the Transmarck business park.