The last victim is a 29-year-old Vietnamese national. Of the twenty-six others are seven women, a 16-year-old teenager and a 7 year old girl.
Le Monde with AFP
Nearly a month after the drama, the twenty-seventh and last migrant death in the sinking of a boat in the Channel on November 24, has been identified, announced, Thursday, December 16, the parquet of Paris . This is a 29-year-old Vietnamese national man.
The twenty-six other victims had been identified after the meeting, Monday, a victim identification board, thanks to the information gathered by the National Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute (IRCGN) and the reviews carried out. At the Lille Hospital Center. It was sixteen Kurds of Iraq, a Kurdish of Iran, three Ethiopians, a Somali, four Afghans and an Egyptian. Seven women, a 16-year-old teenager and a 7 year old child are among the 27 victims.
According to the survey, migrants would be gone on a pneumatic boat “at the end of the night” Loon-Plage, near Greater Synthe (North), where many exiles on the coast. Only two men, an Iraqi Kurdish and a Sudanese, according to the Ministry of the Interior, could be rescued. According to the Iraqi Kurdish, 33 people were on board when passers counted them.
Blur on the conditions of the sinking
The investigation of the national jurisdiction to combat organized crime (Junalco), for the heads of “help at the entry and irregular stay in organized band”, “homicide and involuntary injury” and “association of Calfaitors “, in particular, must determine the conditions of this sinking that remain blurry.
Questions also arise on the distress calls that migrants would have passed to the French and English authorities, when their fortune crafting began to flow, according to the testimony of a survivor with the Kurdish chain Iraqi Rudaw. The Maritime Prefecture of the Manche had ruled that the call of migrants in difficulty was not treated.
Five people suspected of smugglers have been arrested, according to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, but without connection with this sinking, the most Murderer since migrants try to cross the Channel. He sparked a sharp excitement in Europe and relaunched the tensions between France and the United Kingdom.