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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Marine Strauss

France charges five soldiers over 2021 Channel migrants accident

People hold a banner which reads "Your borders, our dead" during a tribute to the 27 migrants who died in a shipwreck while trying to cross the English Channel last year, in Dunkirk, France, November 24, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo

French judges charged five soldiers on Thursday for not assisting people in danger over the deaths of 27 migrants trying to cross the Channel in a small boat in November 2021.

The sinking was the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the narrow seaway separating Britain from mainland Europe.

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