The purpose of the survey is to determine the circumstances of the sinking, to identify the twenty-seven victims and dismantle the networks of smugglers.
Le Monde with AFP
The parquet of Paris called on Wednesday 1 December to transmit to the investigators “any information likely to help the identification” of the twenty-seven migrants dead during the sinking in the Channel their boat a week ago. Any useful information may be addressed to [email protected], specifies in a statement The Prosecution of the Republic of Paris, Laure Beccuau.
On November 24, seventeen men, seven women, two teenagers and a child died in the shipwreck of their boat, off Calais. Only two men survived, from Somali and Iraqi nationality.
The Unit Identification of Disaster Victims (UGIVC) of the National Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute “ensures the Collection of Ante Mortem Information, obtained from the relatives of the victims and associations in connection with the shipwrecked, and post mortem resulting from the examination of the bodies and the highlighting of identifiers (especially fingerprints, dental statements, DNA samples) “, specifies M me Beccuau in this communicated. The results are then studied at an identification commission, under the authority of the Prosecure, “in order to formally certify the identity of the victims and to issue the permits of burial”.
The national jurisdiction to combat organized crime, in Paris, has seized the inquiry open in particular for involuntary homicides, aid at entry, traffic or irregular stay of a stranger in France in France organized band, treats human beings in organized band and participation in a criminal association. The survey aims to determine the circumstances of the sinking, identifying victims and dismantling smugglers.
Investigations have been entrusted to the research section of the Maritime Gendarmerie, the Central Office for the Suppression of Irregular Immigration and the Use of Unit Title Foreigners and the Coquelles Research Mobile Brigade ( Pas-de-Calais) of the central police officers at the borders.
Open a legal route of immigration
This drama, the most murderer in the handle, relaunched the tensions between France and the United Kingdom about the fight against crossings of the handle.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, called, on Monday, November 29, the British Government to open a legal path for admission to its territory of asylum seekers. France is not “a compete from the British authorities,” he launched at a press conference held after a defense council devoted to migration.
m. Darmanin, who reaffirmed the need to respect the Touquet agreements, also called on the negotiation of an agreement on illegal immigration between the European Union and the United Kingdom. “This can not be a migrant readmission agreement in” French, “said the Minister of the Interior, stating that the Prime Minister Jean Castex, would write Tuesday to his counterpart, Boris Johnson, for him propose an agreement.
The day after an intergovernmental meeting in Calais, whose British had been excluded, Mr. Darmanin also warned the British against anyone to return the migrants that would arrive on their ribs, which would be “a red line. unacceptable “. “We will never accept the practice of refurbishments at sea,” he said, because “the United Kingdom is not exempt from international law”.