"This is real group murder."
The president of the SNSM and his volunteers still have their throats tied when they talk about the criminal role of smugglers and the rescue operation undertaken, until late at night on Wednesday.
They intervened after the discovery, by fishermen, of the sinking of an inflatable boat that left Dunkirk that day and of which at least twenty-seven occupants died in the cold waters of the English Channel.
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Among the victims are seventeen men, including two who died in hospital, seven women and
"three young people"
, whose exact age is still unknown, said the prosecutor of Lille, Carole Étienne.
Two survivors,
"apparently Somali and Iraqi"
, were also hospitalized in Calais and should be able to be heard shortly, said the magistrate.
Their long-awaited story could shed light on the circumstances of this tragedy.
The hypothesis of a collision with a container ship is studied and the migrants' tire found deflated at the site of the accident
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