The drama dates back to February 3, 2022. That evening, three sailors, Hakim, Alan and Thierry, lost their lives after the sinking of the Mylanoh, a fishing boat, off Le Havre. As part of the investigation into this tragic accident, four sailors were arrested, heard and finally gradually released, announced the prosecution.
They are three crew members and the captain of another fishing vessel who had alerted the emergency services the night of the sinking of the Mylanoh. According to our information, they are part of the crew of the “Bienvenue”, a trawler specializing in scallop fishing based in Dieppe.
The four sailors had been placed in police custody on Wednesday morning, “in particular on the count of manslaughter”, “in order to confront them with the expertise carried out at the request of the prosecution and the exploitation of the radar recordings of a door -containers sailing near the sinking”, explains in a press release the public prosecutor of Le Havre, Bruno Dieudonné. Because as we indicated on Wednesday, the hypothesis favored by the investigators is that the fatal incident could have been caused by the action of another fishing vessel…
The police custody of the three crew members was lifted on Wednesday evening. As for the captain, released on Thursday, he “maintained his previous statements that he had not seen the Mylanoh vessel, both visually and on his radar screen and that he had struck it when the hull was already overturned. “, adds the press release.
The preliminary investigation conducted by the maritime gendarmerie of the Channel North Sea is continuing, under the direction of the prosecution of the maritime court of Le Havre.