On November 24, 17 men, seven women, two teenagers and a child died in the sinking of their boat, in the sea separating France from the United Kingdom.
Only two men survived, of Somali and Iraqi nationality.
In a statement, the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, Laure Beccuau, launched an appeal to collect “any information useful for the identification of the victims”.
Information that can be sent to the address am-ugivc@gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr.
The Gendarmerie Unit for the Identification of Disaster Victims (UGIVC) of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) "ensures the collection of ante-mortem information, obtained from relatives of victims and related associations. with the castaways, and post mortem resulting from the examination of the bodies and the highlighting of identifying elements (in particular fingerprints, dental records, DNA samples) ”, specifies the prosecutor.
The results are then studied during an identification commission, under the authority of the prosecutor, “in order to formally certify the identity of the victims and to issue burial permits.
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In addition, the National Jurisdiction against Organized Crime (Junalco) in Paris dealt with the investigation opened, in particular for manslaughter, assistance with the entry, movement or illegal stay of a foreigner in France. in an organized gang, trafficking in human beings in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association.
The objective of this investigation is to determine the circumstances of the shipwreck, to identify the victims and to dismantle the networks of smugglers.
The investigations were entrusted to the research section of the maritime gendarmerie, the Central Office for the repression of irregular immigration and the employment of foreigners without title (Ocriest) and the mobile research brigade of Coquelles ( Pas-de-Calais) of the central border police department.
