Senegal fathers convicted for paying people smugglers
A Senegalese court has sentenced three fathers to a month in prison for paying smugglers to take their sons to Europe.
One of the boys died at sea in October.
The court in Mbour, south of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, found the men, who are all fishermen, guilty and gave them two-year suspended sentences for endangering lives.
One of them, Mamadou Faye, is still grieving for his son.
Fifteen-year-old Ousmane – nicknamed Doudou – was one of many passengers in a wooden boat heading to the Canary Islands in October.
But he fell ill at sea and died.
His father’s crime was paying the $450 (£340) fee to the smugglers.
Doudou’s dream had been to make it onto Italy and to join a football academy.
