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CAMPAIGNERS called on the government yesterday to create safe and legal routes for asylum-seekers to reach Britain after the body of a man wearing a life jacket was found on a beach near Calais.
It is feared that the man, aged between 20 and 40, was an asylum-seeker who drowned while attempting to make the 21-mile Channel crossing to Dover.
His body was found without identity documents on Sunday morning on the shore at Sangatte, according to Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Pascal Marconville.
The harrowing discovery follows the death of Sudanese man Abdulfatah Hamdallah after he tried to cross the English Channel in August.
The 22-year-old’s body was found on the same beach.
Care4Calais founder Clare Moseley said that “grim” conditions and “constant” police harassment and abuse of asylum-seekers in northern France was driving them to attempt the perilous crossing.
“These tragedies are not inevitable,” she said. “Better policy from our government could create a safe and legal process that would give refugees an alternative to risking a Channel crossing and save lives.”
