France to try 19 over 2019 migrant lorry deaths


France will try 19 men over a people-smuggling plot that led to the 2019 deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the back of a lorry, a source familiar with the matter says. – EPA pic, May 25, 2023.

FRANCE is to try 19 men over a people-smuggling plot that led to the 2019 deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the back of a lorry, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday.

The trial is the latest of several in Europe over the tragedy.


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