After tugs from Turkey and Pakistan, six members of the Italian army must now be responsible for the fatal accident of a ship with around 175 migrants on board the Kalabrian coast. They are accused of negligent murder, as the office of the public prosecutor in Crotone announced Wednesday.
The members of the border protection and the coast guard are accused of not responding to the emergency situation of the overloaded refugee boat on time and appropriate. At the fall of the ship with around 175 migrants on board in February 2023 off the Kalabrian coast, 94 people had drowned, including many children. Others are missing. A judge must now decide on the opening of a trial against the six army.
“Coast Guard could have been intervening”
In the indictment, the public prosecutor points out that a plane from the European Border Protection Agency Frontex has made the Italian authorities aware of the ship in front of the ship off the Calabrian coast. In general, the “application of European and national laws was clearly neglected”. At the dawn, the ship had only fallen a few tens of meters off the coast. The researchers continued to intervene special boats from the coast guard.
High prison conditions for tractors
Three tractors were already convicted in December. The two Pakistan and a Turk were sentenced to 16 and eleven years in prison for aid for illegal immigration, which led to the death of the migrants, but were acquitted of the extra accusation of negligent shipwreck.
Source: Krone
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