Attention remains high on the issue of migrants after the tragic shipwreck of Cutro
.
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella calls on Italy and the EU so that "condolences are transformed into concrete choices".
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani explains that Italy will open up to tens of thousands of regular migrants.
On the judicial front, the probation session in which the survivors of the shipwreck will be heard may take place next week.
In the meantime, the Rome prosecutor's office has also opened an investigation against unknown persons after the complaint of three parliamentarians.
"We must promote regular immigration. We can bring tens of thousands of regular immigrants to Italy, trained in their countries, because our companies need them. Then we need investments: Italy can do a lot but it risks being a drop in the ocean on the question of migration. Italy alone is not enough because the phenomenon is too big, more European solidarity is needed".
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani
told Tgcom 24.
"Faced with the dramatic event that took place on the Calabrian coast, condolences must be translated into concrete, operational choices by everyone, Italy and the EU, because this is the real answer".
This was stated by the President of the Republic,
Sergio Mattarella
, speaking at the University of Basilicata about the tragedy of Cutro.
"A tragedy occurred on the coasts of Calabria that involved and moved our country. The Afghan refugees reminded us of what our country did two years ago, with the Taliban taking over power, to bring to Italy all the citizens who collaborated. No one was left, everyone was welcomed in Italy. We are reminded of the scenes of citizens begging for a ride at the airport and make us understand why entire families try to leave their land to look for a future elsewhere," Mattarella stressed.
Migrant shipwreck, in Cutro Via Crucis for the victims
THE INVESTIGATIONS
The probative incident requested by the Prosecutor of Crotone to the investigating magistrate could take place next week to crystallize the testimonies of the survivors
of the shipwreck of the boat full of migrants on 26 February in Steccato di Cutro and which caused 70 victims and an unknown number of dispersed.
In Prosecutor's Office circles, it should be noted that these days are necessary to allow notification to all parties involved, including the families of the victims who could then sue for civil action.
The setting of the hearing by the investigating judge of Crotone has therefore not yet taken place.
Then, from the notification of the investigating magistrate, at least two days must pass before the actual performance.
Then all the surviving migrants will be heard, who at this moment, as a practice, are under investigation for a crime related to illegal immigration.
A practice that normally ends with the acquittal.
Six of them have already been heard by the police for summary information, in relation to the position and identification of the smugglers who have been arrested.
Meanwhile, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome has opened, as a duty, an investigation file on the shipwreck of Cutro after a complaint presented by the MPs Ilaria Cucchi, Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni
.
The proceeding was classified according to model 45, i.e. without suspects and hypotheses of crime.
The complaint asked the Capitoline prosecutors to evaluate the ministerial responsibilities in relation to the rescue machine.
Based on what has been learned, the magistrates of Piazzale Clodio will have to evaluate, after having studied the complaint, whether to send the file to their colleagues in the Crotone prosecutor's office for territorial jurisdiction.
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Palazzo Chigi reiterates the government's unity on immigration and denies the rumors of a difference of views between Prime Minister Meloni and Minister Piantedosi.
"The indiscretions that appeared in some press organs relating to a summons to Palazzo Chigi of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, and to alleged differences on the internal line of the Government on immigration, are literally invented and therefore devoid of any foundation", we read in a note from Palazzo Chigi.
A pool of lawyers will assist the survivors and relatives of the victims free of charge
A pool of lawyers will assist the family members of the migrant victims of the shipwreck free of charge in the criminal proceedings that will arise from the investigations by the Crotone Public Prosecutor's Office.
Similar assistance will also be guaranteed to the survivors of the shipwreck.
The pool is made up of lawyers Luigi Li Gotti, former Undersecretary of Justice;
Mitja Gialuz, full professor of criminal procedure law, and Vincenzo Cardone and Francesco Verri, cassation experts in international criminal law.
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to receive reports and indications from anyone in possession of it.
We rightly trust in the activities of the Crotone Public Prosecutor's Office, which can count on our help at any time according to the rules and procedures". "Legal assistance to survivors and to the families of the victims - the four lawyers - it is our way of also morally supporting the hundreds of people who have lost their families.
We will also collaborate with the defenders of the other injured persons, of the entities and organizations that decide to take an active role in the proceedings".
who will be able to count on our help at any time according to the rules and procedures". "Legal assistance to the survivors and to the families of the victims - the four lawyers say - is our way of also morally supporting the hundreds of people who have lost their family members.
We will also collaborate with the defenders of the other injured persons, of the entities and organizations that decide to take an active role in the proceedings".
who will be able to count on our help at any time according to the rules and procedures". "Legal assistance to the survivors and to the families of the victims - the four lawyers say - is our way of also morally supporting the hundreds of people who have lost their family members.
We will also collaborate with the defenders of the other injured persons, of the entities and organizations that decide to take an active role in the proceedings".
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