On the night between 25 and 26 February 2023, a gulet departing from Turkey, with around 180 people on board, broke in two, running aground amid the violence of the waves against a shoal a few meters from the coast of Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone.
It's a massacre: 94 victims, with 34 children.
A judicial investigation is still underway for failure to provide assistance and negligent disaster.
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The victims' families: 'Only words from the government'
"It is not easy to return. It is a scar that is reopening. We are here asking for truth and justice that we have not seen for a massacre that was avoidable."
These are the words of Alidad Shiri, a journalist of Afghan origin who lives and works in Bolzano, who spoke on behalf of the families of the victims of the Cutro shipwreck in which he lost a cousin aged just 17.
Alidad Shiri spoke at the "We do not forget" meeting promoted one year after the massacre of migrants by the CGIL together with Arci Crotone and other associations dealing with social issues.
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"My cousin - he said - had the dream of living free. He was 17 years old and after a year I don't have the courage to tell my aunt that we haven't found the body. If there was a European law on family reunification, massacres like that of Cutro would stop. We asked for reunification, but there were only words from the government."
Filippo Miraglia, of the national Arci, during the event, presented a dossier on the Cutro shipwreck in which all the phases of the event which occurred on 26 February 2023 are reconstructed. Miraglia highlighted "the dignity of the families of the victims and of the survivors who oppose the shameful and inhumane behavior of the Italian government. We are not available to endorse these government policies on migrants, policies made by people who were elected by inculcating inhumanity. We will not remain silent."
"We are here - claimed Maria Grazia Gabrielli, CGIL national secretariat - not only so as not to forget, but to say that another system is possible. We need to change our approach to migration policies because we are not faced with an emergency and emergency measures are not needed to protect national security".
"Between narrative and facts - he added - there is an abyss. Legal corridors can be created, people can be brought in for study, research, work. Here instead a lot of money is given for the agreement with Albania and the system is weakened hospitality that allows us to include and integrate people".
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