# Suspected migrant smugglers go on trial in Paris over deadly Channel crossing

https://mins.news/en/item/51573

- France 24, 2026-09-09 13:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260909-suspected-migrant-smugglers-go-on-trial-in-paris-over-mass-drowning-in-channel

> Fourteen people went on trial in France on Tuesday over the deaths of at least 31 people in the Channel in 2021, the deadliest accident involving asylum seekers trying to reach England. The case includes 114 civil parties, among them victims’ relatives, with some travelling from Erbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan region to testify.

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