In a Paris courtroom, fourteen men stand accused of sending dozens of desperate people — Iraqi Kurds, Afghans, Ethiopians, and others — into the English Channel on a vessel unfit to carry them, on a November night in 2021 that became the deadliest migrant crossing disaster the Channel has ever recorded. At least thirty-one people perished, including children, before rescue arrived nearly twelve hours after the first distress calls. The trial, attended by over a hundred grieving family members, asks not only who bears criminal responsibility, but how so many systems designed to protect human li
Trial opens for 14 suspects in deadliest Channel migrant tragedy
At least 31 migrants and asylum seekers, mostly Iraqi Kurds aged 7-46, died when their boat capsized in the Channel; two survived and four remain unaccounted for.