Paris Court Finds 13 Men Guilty over Deadliest Migrant Channel Crossing on Record
Sentences ranged from six months suspended to 10 years after the court found the deaths were caused by an overloaded dinghy that deflated.
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Five years after the most deadly shipwreck in the English Channel, the Paris Correctional Court sentenced 13 of the 14 smugglers tried, to six months' suspended sentences of ten years. The brain of the network, absent at the deliberations, received the maximum penalty. The investigation against the CROSS agents involved on the evening of the drama continues.
A PARIS court has sentenced six men to prison terms of between six and 10 years for manslaughter in the drowning of more than 30 migrants in the English Channel five years ago.
Fourteen men were tried for three weeks in the Paris Correctional Court, suspected of being smugglers who led to the death of 31 people in the English Channel in 2021.
Paris court convicts six men of manslaughter over migrants disaster in Channel
PARIS, Sept 30 - A Paris court on Wednesday found six men guilty of manslaughter over the drowning of more than 30 people in the Channel five years ago, the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the narrow seaway separating France and Britain. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The court found that this "unpublished disaster" that resulted in 31 deaths had been caused by "individuals driven by the bait of gain, in contempt of human life".
Six men found guilty of manslaughter over worst migrant disaster in Channel which saw 27 deaths
Six men have been found guilty of manslaughter over the worst migrant disaster in the English Channel which saw 27 deaths.Back in November 2021, some 27 men, women and children drowned when their dinghy deflated on the perilous journey from France to the UK.The victims, who were setting off from northern France, were mostly Iraqi Kurds.The group also included a number of Afghan, Ethiopian, Iranian, Somali, Vietnamese and Egyptian nationals. TREN…
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