Trial opens in Paris over 2021 Channel migrant smuggling drownings
Fourteen people went on trial in France over the deaths of at least 31 people who drowned in the English Channel in 2021 while attempting to reach England, according to France 24.
Fourteen people went on trial in France on Tuesday in connection with the deaths of at least 31 people in a 2021 Channel crossing, the deadliest such accident involving asylum seekers attempting to reach England, France 24 reported.
The trial involves 114 civil parties, including victims' families, some of whom traveled from Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region to testify, according to the report.
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- Suspected migrant smugglers go on trial in Paris over mass drowning in Channel — France 24 — English
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