Two of the four cases traffickers who commanded the wrecked barge on sunday at coasts of the Italian region of Calabria (South) with 180 immigrants were this Wednesday placed in preventive detention accused of the disaster, in which 67 people have already died. A court in Crotone (south) validated the arrest this Wednesday for two of the four alleged traffickers who ran the ship, a 50-year-old Turk and a 25-year-old Pakistani, arrested on Monday. While a third, also a 17-year-old Pakistani, is in charge of the Juvenile Court and will decide tomorrow whether to keep him in prison, and a fourth remains unaccounted for.
The two adults are charged with the crimes of clandestine immigration, multiple manslaughter and injuries and were identified by the survivors of the barge themselves. The disaster occurred on the morning of last Sunday when the ship, which had set sail four days before off the coast of Turkeyfrom Anatolia, sank off Crotone, in Calabria, with around 180 immigrants on board, including Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis and Syrians.
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After the tragedy, the death of 67 immigrants – whose bodies have been located – and some eighty survivors, of whom 14 are minors, according to the latest official balance of the Government Delegation in Calabria, were confirmed.
While the Prosecutor’s Office investigates, doubts are growing in Italy as to whether the shipwreck could be avoided, since the Italian coast guard has recognized that the European agency Frontex He already sighted and warned them of the ship’s presence the afternoon before the sinking, Saturday. The new secretary of the opposition Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, called for the resignation of the Interior Minister, Matteo Piantedosi.