(ANSA) – PARIS, DEC 20 – The migrant aid association Utopia 56 announced today that it had filed a complaint for “manslaughter” and “wrongful death” against the maritime prefect of the Channel and two French and British relief officers , after the shipwreck that cost the lives of 27 migrants, at the end of November.
Revealed by the newspaper Le Monde, the complaint was filed on Friday with the Paris prosecutor’s office. It is aimed at the maritime prefect, Philippe Dutrieux, the director of the Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center (Cross) Gris-Nez Marc Bonnafous, as well as the British maritime rescue director (Her Majesty’s Coastguards) Claire Hugues.
In recent weeks, several testimonies from people close to the victims and phone call records reported that migrants had thrown an SOS, in vain.
Shortly after the disaster in the English Channel, the only two survivors gave an interview to the Iraqi Kurdish media Rudaw in which they revealed that they had asked for help.
In a video released on November 29, Mohammed Shekha Ahmad states, among other things: “We called the French police. Then we sent them our location and they replied ‘You are in English waters, call the British.’ British, and they told us to call the French. ” Statements that according to Le Monde were confirmed by the first elements of the French investigation. According to the Kurdish survivor, there were 33 people on board the sunken dinghy. (ANSA).
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