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The Greek trial of nine suspected smugglers of hundreds of migrants killed in a 2023 boat disaster in the Mediterranean was abandoned on Tuesday after the court in the port city of Kalamata said it did not have jurisdiction in the case. Only 104 people survived the June 2023 disaster south-west of Greece, which is believed to have killed up to 600 migrants. Greek media on Tuesday said the case, which involved nine Egyptian men between 20 and 40 years old who Greek prosecutors said had been identified by survivors as smugglers, was swiftly dismissed after members of the Greek coastguard told th…

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