Tthirty-five soft toys arranged in a circle and 94 lit candles. So, this morning on the beach of Steccato di Cutro, in Calabriathe tragedy that occurred precisely one year ago was remembered, when the gulet Summer Love sank caused the death of 94 migrants, 35 of them minors.
Cutro, torchlight procession one year after the massacre
The initiative, organized and desired by the 26 February Network, was celebrated at 4am, the time in which on the night between 25 and 26 February the gulet that left Turkey, with about 180 people on board, broke in tworunning aground amid the violence of the waves against a shoal a few meters from the coast of Cutro, in the province of Crotone, causing a massacre.
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During the commemoration, some verses from the Koran were recited and survivors and families of the victims prayed in the direction of Mecca. At the end, a wreath of flowers she was thrown into the sea by the two fishermen who were the first to intervene at the site of the massacre. Yesterday, again in the morning, the Garden of Alì was also inaugurated on the seafront of Crotone, the youngest victim, he was not yet one year old.
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Needless to say 29 thousand victims of shipwrecks have died throughout the Mediterranean in the last 10 years is a huge and atrocious number. And 2024 hasn’t started better either with already over 160 victims. The spokesperson for UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who took part in the torchlight procession this morning, urged us to «strengthen the search and rescue system at sea also with greater sharing of responsibilities at European level» in order to « create greater international cooperation, a greater culture of peace for a peaceful resolution of the conflicts that fuel the flight of people throughout the world».
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