A Tunisian man has been found guilty for his part in the sinking of a boat in which 700 migrants died in April 2015.
Mohammed Ali Malek, accused of being the boat’s captain, faces 18 years in jail. A Syrian was on trial with him.
The heavily overcrowded boat sank off the coast of Libya after colliding with a merchant vessel that had come to its rescue.
Only 28 people survived the disaster.
Many of those who died had been crammed into the hold of the fishing boat and locked inside.
Most of the victims on the 27m-long (90ft) boat were from countries including Mali, Gambia, Senegal and Ethiopia.
The scale of the disaster prompted the EU to rethink its response to the migrant crisis unfolding in the Mediterranean.
However, the numbers of people crossing to Italy in unsafe boats from North African countries has risen this year to 175,244, the UN says. The number of fatalities in the Mediterranean has also risen to 4,742, an increase of almost 1,000 on 2015.
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