Did He Fall Or Was He Pushed?
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Was He Pushed?
The “body in the ballast tank” ms identified in February. The ody was found in December in ballast tank of the Messageries iaritimes cargo ship "Vivarais” >hen she got back to Dunkerque r om New Caledonia, after lany other ports of call. {PIM, eb. p. 103). It was a mystery s to how and where the man got ito the tank.
The French police found his ame was Rumado, a dry dock orker who was known also as thief and gangster. The police ould not decide whether he hid i the ballast tank before the lip left Dunkerque and was ’aled there by accident, or hether he was murdered and his ody thrown in. Probably they ever will know.