Tag: shipwreck ⁄ Open Migration

European and Italian responsibilities in the Cutro massacre

March 14, 2023 - Oiza Q. Obasuyi

As the number of victims of the Cutro shipwreck continues to rise, Frontex and the Coast Guard increase the blame-shifting. The government still places the blame solely on the boat drivers, but investigations reveal a more complex and broader picture in which the responsibilities for the failure to rescue multiply. All this needs to be seen in an even larger context in which EU countries continue to adopt securitarian and restrictive policies on the right to freedom of movement. Oiza Q. Obasuyi discussed this issue with us.

Why the ruling on the shipwreck of children may prevent future massacres at sea

March 14, 2023 - Tommaso Fusco

Almost 10 years after the day of the shipwreck, the ruling that the defendants are statute-barred is issued. However, the ruling also confirms the responsibility of the Italian Coast Guard and Navy for the shipwreck of 268 people, of which 60 were children. Below we present our interview with Arturo Salerni, one of the lawyers for the victims who had joined the civil proceedings, to understand how to interpret the ruling and what we can expect in the future.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 18/2018

May 15, 2018 - Open Migration

Supported by Forensic Architecture, some of the survivors from the November 6 2017 shipwreck have filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights against Italy, which had a role in the disaster that caused more than 20 deaths. Niger, one of the key partners to Italy and the EU, has sent 132 Sudanese refugees back to Libya. After a five-day odyssey, the 105 migrants rescued by the Astral have finally disembarked in Catania. DNA from Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre’s son shows that the man tried in Sicily for the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck is not the “real” Mered.

The children’s shipwreck: a “disaster of bureaucracy”?

January 10, 2018 - Lorenzo Bagnoli

Case not dismissed. Giovanni Giorgianni, Rome’s judge of preliminary investigations (Italian acronym GIP), has decided that the trial for the shipwreck of October 11, 2013, must continue.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 40/2017

October 10, 2017 - Open Migration

The disastrous EU policies in Africa - in Libya and beyond - and the drama of deaths at sea and human rights violations at Italy’s borders. Also: the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, the crushed dreams of the Daca’s dreamers and the tragic fate of Afghan returnees. This and more in our weekly web-review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 38/2017

September 26, 2017 - Open Migration

Deaths at sea spike again as migration flows from Libya resume; it is imperative to reflect on the limited successes and high costs of migration policies based on deterrence and border closing, in Europe as well as overseas. Also: the concerns over the Black Sea route and why we need to talk about Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and the refugees from North Korea. This and more in our weekly web-review