US EditionItalian Officials to Testify in Trial over Deadly Migrant Shipwreck
Six Italian officers face manslaughter charges for delayed rescue after a migrant boat sank near Cutro, killing 94, including 34 children, amid alleged government restrictions.
- On 30 January, six Italian officers face trial in Crotone for alleged delayed rescue after the February 2023 shipwreck, charged with involuntary manslaughter and `culpable shipwreck`.
- A Frontex aircraft had seen the vessel some 38 kilometres off the coast and alerted Italian authorities hours before it sank, but prosecutors say a GDF patrol turned back in bad weather and no SAR operation was mounted.
- The wooden vessel `Summer Love` carried between 180 and 250 people from Turkiye, sank just metres from the Italian shoreline, and some 80 people survived while 35 children were among the dead.
- At least 65 survivors and six search-and-rescue organisations are civil parties, with Amnesty International observing and Human Rights Watch calling the trial key for truth and justice.
- In 2025, at least 1,340 people are believed to have died in the Central Mediterranean, and since 2014, more than 33,200 have perished or gone missing, with the trial seen as pivotal for European search-and-rescue policy.
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Although six officials were charged with 94 deaths for the drama of Cutro, the true leaders are in politics
In recent days, 380 migrants are said to have drowned in the Mediterranean, and in Calabria an incident involving 94 deaths is being resolved. Six officials are being prosecuted.
Times of Malta
The Peninsula QatarItalian officials go on trial over deadly migrant shipwreck
Six members of Italy's police and coastguard went on trial Friday, accused of failing to intervene in a 2023 shipwreck that killed at least 94 migrants.The disaster off the southern Calabrian coast was Italy's worst in a decade, and set off a firestorm of criticism against far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's tough stance on the...
Accused of having dragged to rescue a ship in 2023, the agents appeared this Friday before the courts in Calabria. The disaster had cost the lives of at least 94 people.
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