A few hours after the sinking of Wednesday, November 24 on the coasts of Calais, the Paris prosecutor’s office launched an investigation to identify the victims. It will prove to be complicated and trying.
Three weeks after the largest shipwreck of migrants in the Channel, the Paris prosecutor’s office has officially identified 26 victims out of the 27 bodies recovered. Among them, Maryam, Husain, Kazhall, Muhamad … The investigation required the combined efforts of the Red Cross and the victim identification cell of the gendarmerie. The first was responsible for retracing the lives of victims using passports, photos or asylum applications, while the second analyzed the data collected on bodies, DNA, fingerprints, teeth.
Release investigated the journeys of these seventeen men, seven women, two teenagers and a child who drowned. Our journalist specializing in migration issues, Gurvan Kristanadjaja, visited the site. He tells.
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According to associations in Calais, this kind of drama could recur once the weather has calmed down. According to François Guennoc, vice-president of the Auberge des migrants, the exiles prefer “to die all at once than to die slowly in Calais.“