Trial over deadly Med shipwreck opens in Greece amid protests

The trial of nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece last year began amid protests on Tuesday in the city of Kalamata.

Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt boarded a fishing trawler in Libya that was bound for Italy before sinking off the coast of Pylos, in southwestern Greece, on June 14. Some 104 survivors were rescued and only 82 bodies were recovered in one of the deadliest boat accidents in the Mediterranean.

The Egyptian men...