The British Home Office called it a tragic event without revealing the identity of the victim.
Top Channel’s Muhamed Veliu, from sources with knowledge of the investigation, reveals that the immigrant who ended his life on Tuesday in the asylum-seeker hotel-ship, is Albanian.
He is a 27-year-old with the initials L.F. born in a village near Durrës in central Albania.
His relatives in London are expected to go to the Dorset morgue in the south of England to identify the deceased and get acquainted with the expected result of the autopsy.
Top Channel learns that the young Albanian arrived in England from France by boat in August last year.
After spending a few days in London with relatives, he was reportedly sent by the Home Office to live in a hotel, 6 hours away from the British capital.
Then complied with the Home Office’s request to live on the hotel ship leased by the English government, in their bid to reduce the costs of housing asylum seekers.
Top Channel has revealed that the deceased, in phone conversations with family members, said that “the living conditions on the hotel ship are good, but the migrants are being treated like animals by the security staff”.
This is the second case in the last two months, when an Albanian asylum seeker commits suicide in immigration centers in England.
At the beginning of November, 38-year-old Alfred Dosku ended his life by hanging himself with a mattress at the Brook House asylum detention center near Gatwick Airport in London.
The British government says that over the past two years it has deported 5,000 Albanians after coming illegally or refusing their asylum claims, as Albania was put on the list of safe countries of origin.
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