A Cypriot court sentenced a Syrian captain to three years in prison for the negligent death of a 3-year-old migrant girl aboard an overloaded boat. The court found him guilty of failing to ensure the safety of the 60 Syrian migrants on board, who were left adrift for six days without adequate supplies. The boat set sail from Lebanon but suffered engine failure, leading to dehydration and the tragic death of the young girl.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A Cyprus court sentenced a Syrian national to three years in prison after finding him guilty of causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old girl from dehydration aboard an overloaded migrant boat that was adrift for six days without adequate supplies of food and water.
According to the facts of the case, the captain had told the passengers at some point in the journey to throw any remaining bottles of water overboard in a bid to remove any indications that the boat had departed from Lebanon. Cypriot authorities had airlifted the little girl, who was accompanied by her mother, to a hospital after locating the boat but medical staff couldn’t save her.
According to the most recent government data, migrant arrivals to ethnically divided Cyprus — mostly through the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north where government authorities can’t exercise jurisdiction — dropped from 17,278 in 2022 to 6,102 in 2024.
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