Europol probes ignored shipwreck in which 500 migrants drowned
London — The head of Europe’s police agency said it would "look again" at the largest migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean this year after an investigation by Reuters and BBC Newsnight exposed a gap in the response by law enforcement. Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, said his agency would reconsider the shipwreck, given "the absence of any clear answers". The Reuters investigation of an incident on April 9, in which an estimated 500 people drowned, raised "uncomfortable" issues, Wainwright said. It found that no official body, national or international, had held anyone to account for the deaths or even opened an inquiry into the shipwreck.
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