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November 25, 2021 The French prosecutor investigating the sinking of a boat in the English Channel yesterday announced that among the dead people there are seven women, one of whom is pregnant, three minors and 17 men.
Investigations are underway to verify potential allegations of murder, unintentional injury, illegal migration assistance and criminal conspiracy, the prosecutor's office said.
About thirty migrants died in the shipwreck.
Five people arrested as alleged passeur.
Meanwhile, after the massacre, the French government has announced the convening of a meeting between the ministers of the interior of Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and with the European Commission, to jointly evaluate how to strengthen migration control. The meeting will take place on Sunday in Calais and the French authorities are confident that it will serve to "define ways to strengthen cooperation between police, judicial authorities and the realities of humanitarian aid to better combat the smuggling networks involved in migratory flows".
And French President Emmanuel Macron sends a message speaking to journalists in Zagreb during his visit to Croatia: "Stronger cooperation between European countries is needed to tackle the problem of human trafficking. We need to strengthen cooperation. with Belgium, Holland, Germany, but also with the United Kingdom and the EU Commission. We need stronger European cooperation ".
And again: "France is a transit country" and "it will also be very clear, our security forces are mobilized day and night".