Investigators in Norway found out the identity of the boy, whose body washed up the shore of the country’s coast last year. Norway police have said that the body of a baby found on the country’s coast is that of a missing 15 month old who died in the English Channel last year.
The child’s name was Artin. He died along with four family members when the boat that they were travelling in sank in the English Channel in October 2020. It was a Kurdish-Iranian family who were trying to reach UK from France. The other members of the family have been waiting frantically for Artin. They are now in tremendous grief.
On Monday, Norway police said that the body had been found on the country’s south-western shore near Karmoy by two officers on New Year’s day.
There was no case of missing baby in Norway, and the blue overall that the baby was wearing was also not a Norwegian brand. That raised suspicion.
On October 27, the boat carrying the family sank in the Channel. The family were from Sardasht, a city in Western Iran, near to the border with Iraq.
An investigation was opened in Dunkirk into the sinking incident by the French public prosecutor.
At a camp in Dunkirk, another refugee Bilal used to stay near the family of the kid. Bilal described Artin as “a very happy baby” and very famous in the camp. Other survivors are in grief after coming to know about Artin.
Each year, many Iranian-Kurdish families from Kurdish region flee and head to Europe, as in their homeland they face political persecution and huge economic disparity.
Despite being the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, they have never obtained a permanent nation state.
