# Suspected migrant smugglers stand trial in Paris over deadly Channel drowning

https://mins.news/en/item/49307

- Reuters, 2026-09-08 07:35 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/suspected-migrant-smugglers-go-trial-paris-over-mass-drowning-channel-2026-09-08/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a9fbaaaabedf1000171c72f

> Fourteen men went on trial in Paris on smuggling charges tied to the drowning of more than 30 migrants in the English Channel five years ago. The tragedy was the worst recorded disaster involving migrants in the narrow waterway between France and Britain.

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