This shipwreck, which occurred on the night of November 24, is the deadliest since the migrants tried to cross the Channel.
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He is a man of Vietnamese nationality, who was 29 years old. The 27th and last migrant who died during the shipwreck in the Channel on the night of November 24 while trying to reach the English coast, has been identified, announced Thursday, December 16, the Paris prosecutor’s office, which issued a new burial permit, after the one under X issued before it was identified.
The 26 other victims had been identified after the meeting on December 13 of a commission for the identification of victims, thanks to information collected by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) and to examinations carried out at the Lille hospital center. . They were sixteen Kurds from Iraq, one Kurd from Iran, three Ethiopians, one Somali, four Afghans and one Egyptian. Seven women, a teenager (16 years old) and a child (7 years old) are among the 27 victims.
Only two men, an Iraqi Kurd and a Sudanese according to the Interior Ministry, were able to be rescued. According to the Iraqi Kurd, 33 people were on board when the smugglers counted them.
The investigation of the National Jurisdiction against Organized Crime (Junalco) for “assistance with irregular entry and stay in an organized group”, “homicide and involuntary injuries” and “criminal association”, must in particular determine the conditions of this shipwreck. Questions arise about the appeals that the migrants would have made to the French and English authorities, when their makeshift boat began to sink, according to the testimony of a survivor with the Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw.
The Manche maritime prefecture had ruled out that the appeal of migrants in difficulty was not dealt with.
Five people suspected of being smugglers were arrested, according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, but unrelated to this shipwreck.