In Lille, the Trial of Nine Smugglers for a Fatal Shipwreck

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Several men were tried following the shipwreck of a migrant boat in December 2022, which had caused four deaths and four missing. The reaction of the rescue workers, both in France and in the United Kingdom, had been controversial.

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Since 16 June, the Lille court has been examining the methods of a network accused of having arranged for the crossing of candidates for exile to Great Britain, which had been dismantled following a fatal shipwreck in December 2022. Nine men have been tried for "involuntary manslaughter".