France puts 14 on trial over deadliest Channel migrant crossing disaster

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Fourteen individuals are to be tried in France for their alleged involvement in people-smuggling linked to a deadly 2021 migrant boat disaster in the English Channel that caused 31 fatalities and left four missing. The trial is part of ongoing efforts to address migrant crossing tragedies.

Fourteen people will stand trial in France over the deaths of 31 migrants in the deadliest recorded small-boat disaster in the English Channel, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The defendants are accused of links to people-smuggling networks involved in the November 2021 sinking, which left four others missing.