# Suspected migrant smugglers go on trial in Paris over Channel mass drowning

https://mins.news/en/video/51437

- France 24 English, 2026-09-09 13:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnhb0GQIPpw

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

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