Milan, 5 Mar. (LaPresse) – The preliminary hearing in the Crotone court for the Cutro shipwreck, which occurred on 26 February 2023 and cost 94 people their lives, including 35 children, kicked off today. The charges brought are manslaughter and multiple manslaughter. ‘We will closely follow the proceedings that open today in Crotone. We do so in order to express our solidarity with the survivors and the families of the victims, who have the right to truth and justice,’ comments Médecins Sans Frontières, whose teams offered psychological support to the survivors and the families of the victims in the following days, particularly in the stages of recognising the bodies. ‘We are convinced that the shipwreck could have been avoided. And we also believe that those 94 victims are the product of years of Italian and European policies based on rejections, deterrence and criminalisation of migration, as well as on agreements with third countries, through which Italy and the EU continue to finance international crimes in the name of defending borders,’ commented Marco Bertotto, Msf's director of programmes.
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