France Tries 14 over Deadliest Channel Migrant Crossing Disaster
- Fourteen defendants linked to people-smuggling are on trial in France for a disaster where 27 mostly Iraqi Kurds died when their inflatable dinghy sank on November 24, 2021, with only two men surviving.
- Two survivors testified that their boat started to deflate and take on water several hours into the crossing.
- Most defendants, born in Afghanistan, face charges of manslaughter and facilitating illegal immigration as part of an organized criminal group.
- Prosecutors say the boat was substandard, uncertified, overcrowded, and lacked life jackets; a UK inquiry reported that some deaths could have been avoided if authorities had acted faster.
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France tries 14 over deadliest Channel migrant crossing disaster
The defendants, believed to be linked to people-smuggling networks, are accused of playing a role in the sinking in which 27 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, were confirmed dead when their inflatable dinghy sank in the early hours of November 24, 2021. Four others are still unaccounted for. Only two men survived the tragedy. On November 24, 2021, a French fishing vessel reported several lifeless bodies floating in the Channel off Calais, close to Br…
Five years after the worst sinking of migrants in the English Channel, the trial of alleged smugglers begins on Tuesday, 8 September, while the military accused of non-assistance are subject to a separate procedure.
31 people die in the English Channel in November 2021, when a dinghy sinks at night. Now 14 alleged smugglers are on trial and French rescue forces are still being investigated.
31 dead or missing, including a child, during a night of nightmare in the English Channel in November 2021: from this Tuesday, the French justice will judge 14 suspected smugglers in the worst known shipwreck of migrants trying to rally England.
Thirty-one people lost their lives trying to reach the United Kingdom by sea on 24 November 2021. Fourteen people are being prosecuted for "involuntary homicides" and "help with irregular stay in organized gangs" and will be tried before the Paris court, starting Tuesday.
The trial of 14 suspected smugglers begins this Tuesday before the Paris Correctional Court. In November 2021, 31 people died after the shipwreck of their boat. - Paris: 14 men tried from this Tuesday after the death of 31 people, including a child, in the Channel (Police, justice and other facts).
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