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The Interior Ministry orders the transfer of the bodies of the victims of the Steccato di Cutro shipwreck to Bologna

2023-03-08T11:25:06.742Z


The fourth smuggler arrested. Another has been identified among the victims (ANSA)


The bodies of the victims of the Steccato di Cutro shipwreck will all be transferred today to the Muslim cemetery in Bologna.

The decision was taken by the Ministry of the Interior and took by surprise the families who are in Crotone and who staged a protest with a sit-in in front of the Palamilone.

They ask to wait a few days to have the possibility of starting the procedures for the transfer to the countries of origin.

The municipality of Crotone, which collected their requests, had already approved sums for the costs of the transfer by taking them from the Migrant Fund which would then be reimbursed by the Ministry.

The fourth alleged smuggler

of the boat loaded with migrants has been arrested

, whose shipwreck in Cutro, at dawn on 26 February last, caused the

confirmed death of 72 people and an as yet unknown number of missing

.

It is a Turkish citizen, Gun Ufuk, aged 28, who after the shipwreck managed to get away and make himself untraceable.

Ufuk, according to what has been learned, was tracked down in Austria.

The arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge of Crotone, Michele Ciociola, was pending on Gun Ufuk's account, after the validation of the detentions of the alleged smugglers.

The other three arrested are a Turk and two Pakistanis, one of whom is a minor.

Ufuk would have been the person entrusted with the task of steering the caique which, a few tens of meters from the shore, in front of the coast of 'Steccato' di Cutro, collided with a shoal, throwing its human cargo into the sea.

Furthermore, the Turkish citizen would also have performed the functions of a mechanic, intervening several times when the engine of the

boat has experienced some problems.

At the moment there are no details on the elements that allowed the investigators to track down the smuggler in Austria and arrest him.

Another of the alleged smugglers

of the shipwrecked loaded caique has died.

This was ascertained by the investigators of the Police and the soldiers of the Naval Operational Section of Crotone of the Guardia di Finanza.

The man, a 30-year-old of Turkish nationality, was identified thanks to the declarations of the survivors and identified among the victims of the shipwreck thanks to the recognition of the shipwrecked people themselves.    

Source: ansa

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