The fourth pre-inquest review hearing into the deaths of the 30 British tourists killed in the attack at Port El Kantaoui was heard on Tuesday, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Barrister Andrew Ritchie QC, representing some of the victims’ families for solicitors Irwin Mitchell, claimed the UK government had failed in its duty of care in not persuading tour operators to stop sending tourists to the country following an earlier attack.
He said the Foreign Office had not acted quickly enough after the killing of 22 tourists at Tunis’s Bardo Museum in March 2015.
‘FCO failed families’ following Bardo attack, Tunisia pre-inquest hears
Destinations
Gary Noakes
14 September 2016
Lawyers for victims of last year’s Tunisia beach massacre have accused the UK government of prioritising “cosy chats” with tour operators over security warnings about the country in the months preceding the deadly terror attack.
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