Mattarella goes to Crotone Coast Guard: 'There was no danger'

Migrant shipwreck, tomorrow Mattarella in Crotone

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, will be in Crotone tomorrow to pay homage to the victims of the sinking of the boat on which a group of migrants were travelling.

The shipwreck has caused the confirmed death, at the moment, of 67 people and an as yet unknown number of missing.

Of the visit of President Mattarella, of which the details are currently lacking, it has been learned from local sources.

The Head of State, according to what has been learned, should go to the Palasport, where the coffins of the victims of the shipwreck are lined up.

The shipwreck that took place in Calabria is "an unpredictable tragedy in the light of the information that was received".

Coast Guard spokesman

Cosimo Nicastro said this to Bruno Vespa's '5 minutes'.

"The elements of which we and the Guardia di Finanza were aware - he added - did not suggest that there was a dangerous situation for the occupants. No telephone reports had arrived either from on board or from family members. And at the same time the boat , which departed 4 days earlier from Turkey, had not reported any information to the other corresponding coastguard organizations it passed through".

The investigating judge of the Court of Crotone validated the arrest of two smugglers of the boat that crashed on the coast of Cutro causing the death of 67 people

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The two, a 50-year-old Turk and a 25-year-old Pakistani, were arrested on Monday together with a 17-year-old young man, for whom the Catanzaro Juvenile Court is proceeding, which has set the validation hearing tomorrow .

The investigating judge Michele Ciociola ordered the precautionary measure in prison for the two who are under investigation for aiding and abetting illegal immigration, culpable shipwreck and injuries.

A fourth smuggler is under investigation but is currently untraceable.

The number of victims of the sinking of the boat loaded with migrants in the waters of Steccato di Cutro rises to 67.

The discovery took place in the morning.

The last body, in chronological order, to have been recovered by the rescuers who are operating in the area of ​​the tragedy, is that of a little girl.

At 4.30 am, 2 carabinieri from the Compagnia di Crotone mobile radio were the first to intervene after the

boat loaded with migrants sank.

The military rescued two people and recovered 17 bodies.

"We approached, diving into the water, noting the presence of two unconscious bodies under the boat and in danger of being crushed... A woman had already died, while a man was in respiratory distress" reads the report to the records of the investigation.

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That's not the way the speech is. You should know the plans, the agreements that exist at ministerial level.

not to be done for press articles. There would be a need to specify many things about how the device for plotting migrants works, from who arrive in territorial waters to who then have to be escorted or welcomed: the operations are carried out by the Gdf until they become Sar. In this case the dynamics need to be verified".

Thus the commander

"We understand that on Sunday the sea was force 4 but larger patrol boats could have navigated even with sea force 8. Have

we not received any alarm? I repeat, now there is an intricate reconstruction of the facts of which I cannot e I can't afford to anticipate the conclusions because we haven't even gotten there.

"We believe we have operated according to our rules of engagement in this case as well. We are only sorry to read in the newspapers that we have not carried out the rescue. We understand that you can save 100,000 but then it is that only kid or child or family who does not you manage to save that it makes your job seem useless.

It's not about bureaucracy and any experience can be treasured. We'll see at the end of the investigations that are not only criminal but also internal and administrative. I'm tried humanly but professionally I'm fine"

"It would take too long to specify what our rules of engagement are and they cannot be summarized also because they are often rules that do not emanate from the ministry to which I belong, they emanate from that of the interior. It is a very complex reconstruction"

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Thus the commander of the Crotone harbor master's office Vittorio Aloi.

ANSA Agency

Pain in the burial chamber of the dead from the shipwreck - Calabria

"KR46M0".

The acronym is imprinted on the smallest of the 65 coffins found in the Palamilone.

Coffins in which the remains of the shipwrecked who died Sunday on the beach of Steccato di Cutro rest.

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The funeral home at Palamilone, the sports hall of Crotone,

which houses the coffins of the victims of the Steccato di Cutro shipwreck,

by interreligious prayer led by the imam of the Cutro mosque, Mustafa Achik, and by the bishop of Crotone, Angelo Raffaele Panzetta.

There are already many people who have come from all over Calabria to pay homage to the coffins placed on the parquet floor of the structure.

All 27 mayors of the Crotone area and local administrators were present.

Two ladies from Crotone were the first to enter to pay homage to the victims.

"Let's hope it's the last - one of them said through tears - they have to see what to do from the government".

"We are here - added the other - because it is a huge tragedy that cannot fail to strike us. We were lucky to be born here".

ANSA Agency

Migrants, Steccato di Cutro shipwreck: Frontex, Italy immediately notified.

Coast Guard, the first calls at 4.30 - Calabria

The official death toll rises to 66, the last body recovered is that of a child (ANSA)

The email

with which

- at 11.03 pm on Saturday evening - communicated the sighting of the boat loaded with migrants which then sank 100 meters from the beach of Cutro,

, emphasizing only that there could be "possible other people under covered"

Furthermore, in the message, Frontex

, an organization born after the 2013 tragedy in Lampedusa, which has been involved for years in identifying the victims of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean,

to the head of the civil liberties and immigration department, to the extraordinary commissioner for missing persons and to the prefect of Crotone

before their burial.

"As happened in other tragic shipwrecks, by virtue of the Lampedusa protocol and thanks to the active and tireless work of the Labanof Institute (Laboratory of Anthropology and Forensic Odontology of the University of Milan), the identification of the corpses of the shipwrecks is possible - explain the promoters of the committee -

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We ask all authorities to apply, in the absence of a specific protocol, Interpol's Dvi (DisasterVictimIdentification) protocol, which provides for:

". "Even the families of the deceased or missing should be considered victims of the same shipwrecks and should be involved as much as possible by the authorities in the process of identification and burial - said Tareke Brhane, president of the 3 October Committee - .

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This umpteenth shipwreck brings us back to the shipwrecks of 3 and 11 October 2013. Shipwrecks that shook the consciences of our continent, exposing the consequences of the absence of a real migration policy.

Unfortunately, ten years later people continue to die in the Mediterranean because, once again, they prefer to protect borders and not people".

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