The Las Palmas Prosecutor's Office is asking for a total of fifty-eight years in prison for each of the three defendants accused of the Los Cocoteros tragedy (Teguise, Lanzarote), where twenty-five people died exactly one year ago, including three children, several teenagers and two women.
Two of the accused are charged with allegedly having captained the boat from the African coast to Lanzarote. They are Youssef Fotohu and Mohammed Sidi, who are in prison and were two of the six survivors of the shipwreck.
The other is Brahim Jbilou, identified by some survivors as the organizer of the trip on land. Jbilou was arrested four months later when he arrived aboard another boat in Lanzarote. He is in the Tahíche prison and last week the oral hearing of the trial for that second trip was held in Arrecife by the Provincial Court. The trial is ready for sentencing.
The Prosecutor's Office is asking for eight years in prison for each of the three defendants for a crime against the rights of foreign citizens and two more years in prison for each of the twenty-five reckless homicides of the occupants of the boat who did not survive.
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