UK opens probe into mysterious 2004 sinking of French trawler off Cornwall
A coroner’s inquest opens in London on Monday into the mysterious sinking of a French fishing trawler 17 years ago, which the victims’ families blame on a submarine.
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A coroner’s inquest opens in London on Monday into the mysterious sinking of a French fishing trawler 17 years ago, which the victims’ families blame on a submarine.
Judge says court will look at possible submarine links as to how fishing boat sank off Cornish coast
Pascal Le Floch, Yves Gloaguen and three others died when their trawler sank off Cornwall in 2004.
A coroner’s inquest opened in London yesterday into the mysterious sinking of a French fishing trawler 17 years ago, which the victims’ families blame on a submarine. French courts spent years investigating the sinking of the Bugaled Breizh in international waters off Cornwall, southwest England, on Jan. 15, 2004, but there has never been a full explanation about what happened. The ship’s crew of five French fishers — Yves Gloaguen, Pascal Le Floch, Georges Lemetayer, Patrick Gloaguen and Eric Guillamet — all perished in the sinking. Judge Nigel Lickley is holding inquests into the d...