It would have remained only one shipwreck of migrants among thousands of others in the Mediterranean, where more than 3200 people died or were reported missing last year.
That of an inflatable boat loaded with African exiles who left Libya to try to reach Europe.
But the tragic fate of this boat, of which 63 of the 72 occupants perished during its fourteen days adrift in the spring of 2011, did not remain in the shadows.
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