Green light for extradition: The boatswain who allegedly maneuvered 94 refugees to their deaths off the Italian coast is now “moving” from his cell in Graz to Calabria
No doubt the surviving witnesses recognized Gun U. in court as the one who would have piloted the boat from the Turkish coast to Italy. Until it crashed on the cliffs off the coast of Calabria. The 28-year-old Turk is said to have been the mechanic on board during the fatal crossing and to have tinkered with the boat’s engine several times, causing problems a few times.
As reported in detail, a total of 94 refugees died in the boat drama at the end of February in Crotone, Italy. Including many women and children. All helplessly drowned.
Tugboat left victims behind: Escape by dinghy
After the accident, the death captain cared only for his life, left the victims and fellow smugglers to fend for themselves and cowardly took off in a small dinghy. But just a few days later, the unscrupulous Turk was in a refugee quarter in the capital of Styria in the search network. He wanted to go to Germany.
While two of his co-defendants had to answer in person in court in Italy, the 28-year-old had been connected via video conference on the previous days of the trial in Italy.
Video message from the Judicial Authority of Graz to Italy
But that will change at the next hearings: Even before the surviving Pakistanis identified the alleged death captain on screen, a digital message was sent from Graz. The prosecutor’s office announced to the Italo judges via video link that Gun U.’s extradition would be granted and that he would be handed over to Italy in the next ten days.
Bende made promotional videos with boat passengers
The charges: manslaughter, negligent bodily harm, complicity in illegal immigration.
As the witnesses describe, the smugglers shot promotional videos for the Turkish “travel agency” on their mobile phones during the boat trip – the refugees had to praise the organization and “the pleasant crossing”…
Source: Krone
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