Stéphane Kellenberger, prosecutor of the western port city of Brest, said two Chinese crew members, the captain and the chief mate, who had been detained since Tuesday, were released from police custody.
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“More could have been done," Kellenberger said. "Things could have been done differently, even within the notorious layers of French bureaucracy, where responsibilities are so often passed from one authority to another until, eventually, that responsibility is lost, and hits innocent lives."
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