The judicial inquiry into the shipwreck of migrants in the Channel, which killed 27 people at the end of November, is continuing to identify those responsible for this tragedy.
A person was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Wednesday and nine others are presented Thursday, June 30 to a Parisian investigating judge, said a judicial source.
A total of 15 people – 13 men and two women – were arrested on Sunday and Monday, according to this source, confirming information from Le Parisien and RTL.
Five have been released without prosecution at this stage.
Judicial information was opened in December at the Paris court, in particular for homicides and involuntary injuries, endangering others and aiding the entry and stay of a foreigner in France in an organized gang.
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Only two people could be rescued
The other nine are in the process of being presented to an examining magistrate, also with a view to an indictment.
Twenty-seven migrants aged 7 to 46 died on November 24 in the sinking of their inflatable boat off Calais, while trying to reach Great Britain.
There were 16 Kurds from Iraq, one Kurd from Iran, 4 Afghans, 3 Ethiopians, one Somali, one Egyptian and one Vietnamese.
Only two men, an Iraqi Kurd and a Sudanese, had been rescued.
This shipwreck, the deadliest since migrants tried to cross the Channel, had caused a stir in Europe and reignited tensions between France and the United Kingdom.
With AFP
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