A 19-year-old man was charged on Wednesday in the United Kingdom with four manslaughters after a migrant boat sank in the English Channel in December that left four people dead, police said.
Ibrahima Bah must appear in this context Thursday before the court of Folkestone, in the south of England.
perilous crossing
Four migrants, including a teenager, died in the sinking of their boat while trying to cross the English Channel in mid-December.
Thirty-nine had been rescued.
The police continue to work to establish the identity of the victims and locate their relatives.
The investigation is continuing to clarify the circumstances of the sinking.
Ibrahima Bah was arrested a few days later and charged "
for having knowingly facilitated the attempt to arrive in the United Kingdom of people whom he knew or had reason to believe were asylum seekers
".
He is to be tried this year for these charges.
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In 2022, more than 45,000 migrants crossed the Channel to reach the English coast, a record.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 4800 have made this perilous crossing.
The British Conservative government has promised to stop these migrant boats and has made it one of its priorities, but so far without success.
In order to dissuade them from coming to the United Kingdom, he plans to prevent any migrant who has arrived illegally from seeking asylum in the country.
He also wants to send them to Rwanda, a project suspended by court decisions.