Body found in Paris canal as city opens summer swimming season

One unidentified man, aged 25-35, found dead in the canal after several days of submersion; cause of death under investigation.

In the early days of July, Paris found itself caught between the impulse to care for its people and the limits of what any city can control, when firefighters pulled an unidentified man's body from the Canal Saint-Martin — a waterway that had only recently been opened to swimmers as relief from a historic heat wave. The man, estimated to be between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, had been in the water for several days; how he came to be there remains unknown. His discovery arrived on the very morning the city launched its second season of supervised swimming in the Seine, a program born

Body found in Paris canal as city opens summer swimming season

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