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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is trying to tighten rules to prevent record numbers of migrants from attempting the Channel crossing, called the capsize a 'tragic loss of human life'.
The suspect is accused of organising the dangerous crossing by a boat carrying 287 people from Libya.
Reportedly from Bangladesh, they were making the perilous crossing from Libya in a boat carrying 280 people.
The search and rescue team leader for MSF's Geo Barents ship, Riccardo Gatti, said that 'what we faced yesterday was our worst nightmare coming true'.
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At least 16 people were killed after they were stuck in their vehicles amid heavy snowfall in Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree north of Islamabad
Maryam Nuri Amin attempted to join her fiancé, who was living in the UK before she drowned off the northern French port of Calais alongside at least 26 others.
The talk about migrant crossings were scrapped in anger over a letter the British prime minister sent to President Macron on the issue, according to reports.
More than 600 people crossed the channel from France to the UK on Wednesday. Among them was an Afghan soldier and his family fleeing the Taliban after losing faith in British evacuation efforts.
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Record number of migrants cross Channel to UK
Plans to relocate the migrants have been held up after official disagreements and protests from locals.