Mediterranean: the Seven Days Drifting From an Abandoned Migrant Boat

In March 2024, an inflatable canoe carrying about 80 people drifted for almost a week in the Central Mediterranean. Although repeatedly spotted, no one assisted him. Only 24 people survived. Mediapart traces his journey.

On Monday, May 26, the judges of the Court of Crotone, in Calabria, began the penultimate day of preliminary hearings to decide whether two Italian coastguards and four military officers of the Finance Guard should be tried for the wreckage of Summer Love, off the coast of Cutro, which caused the death of 94 people in February 2023.In the shadow of this trial, Mediapart has reconstructed the fate of another migrant vessel that, approximately a y…