Steccato di Cutro

When 94 people, including 35 children, drowned 40 meters from the Steccato di Cutro beach last February 26, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said:“If we could, we would have saved the migrants.”And he had blocked the requests for transparency on the opaque chain of rescue and resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, for his words of rare inhumanity immediately after the tragedy and for the rescue intervention after the shipwreck had already occurred. The errors, flaws and falsehoods of the government's version of the Cutro massacre The government did not deliberately cause the migrants to die, Meloni responded to these requests while the blame and buck-passing between the Coast Guard (which reports to the Ministry of Transport) and the Financial Police (which reports to the Ministry of the Interior) continued. and Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency).Among those who claimed that they had been consulted only for information and that the...

These people were in no condition to be saved.But really, in good conscience, is there anyone who believes that the government deliberately caused 60 people to die?Let's be serious.The issue is simple in its tragedy.No emergency communication has been received from Frontex.We were not warned.Nothing in this matter has anything to do with the government's measures with NGOs. It took the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, a week to comment the Cutro massacre, in Calabria, the most serious shipwreck since 2013 on the Italian coast which has so far caused the confirmed death of 72 people, including 28 minors, and around forty people missing.And he did so by blocking those who call into question the responsibilities of the Italian authorities in the opaque dynamics of the rescue chain and those who call for the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, not only for his words of rare inhumanity immediately after the tragedy, but also for the rescue operation after the ship...

It's a terrible déjà vu.A new shipwreck in international waters that brings with it the usual dynamics:absurd hesitations and disputes between states which then translate into delays in rescue and rescue operations.In fact, 30 hours passed between the Alarm Phone report (a call center that reports emergencies at sea managed by the NGO Watch The Med), on the night of March 11, and the intervention of the Italian authorities, after the unavailability and silence of the Libyan and Maltese maritime authorities.The budget is dramatic:17 survivors, 30 missing in the cold sea of ​​March. 6⃣ The dramatic balance sheet on the 47 Castaways:thirty hours after the 🆘 AlarmPhone 17 survivors30 missing The elapsed time:disputes with other states(knowing from the start that Libya, Malta and Greece are historically unreliable ed.) The Coast Guard statement ⚓️🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/NN3l1Mk8j3 — Sergio Scandura (@scandura) March 12,...

Almost ten years have passed since around 600 people lost their lives in two shipwrecks, on 3 and 11 October 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa.In the 11th attack, at least 60 minors lost their lives, so much so that it was defined as "the massacre of children".Since 2016, the Day of Remembrance and Reception has been established on 3 October, as a warning that such tragedies should not be repeated. Since 2014, almost over 26,000 people have disappeared in the same way in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach European shores, according to the data provided by the Missing Migrants project of the World Organization for Migration (IOM). via Missing Migrants Project The last massacre took place at dawn on February 26th:dozens of bodies were dragged by the waves of the stormy sea onto the beach of Steccato di Cutro, in Calabria, after the shipwreck of a fishing boat leaving from Izmir, Turkey, with over 200 people on board. Over 60 people have died of this latest shipwreck at t...