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NGO sues French and British authorities over Channel migrant boat tragedy
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An NGO has filed a lawsuit against French and British authorities over their failure to rescue 27 migrants who died in the English Channel last month.
"Utopia 56 files a complaint to the prosecutor of the Paris Judicial Court for manslaughter and failure to provide assistance," the NGO said in a statement on Monday.
The lawsuit targets a French Prefect, French rescue services CROSS Gris Nez, the UK Director of Her Majesty’s Coastguards as well as "any other perpetrator, co-perpetrator or accomplice that the investigation would come to determine".
The NGO, citing testimonies of survivors and their relatives, says "distress calls were reported to the French and English rescue services before the bodies were discovered by a fishing boat. No help
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