US EditionItalian Officials on Trial Over Deadly Migrant Shipwreck
CALABRIA, ITALY, JUL 21 – Six officers face multiple manslaughter charges for negligence in a migrant shipwreck that killed over 90 people, one of Italy's deadliest maritime disasters, prosecutors said.
- An Italian judge ordered six police and coastguard officials to stand trial for alleged negligence linked to a 2023 migrant shipwreck near Cutro that killed over 90 people.
- The trial follows a prosecutorial investigation requiring judicial permission to proceed, with the accused facing multiple manslaughter charges related to mishandling rescue operations.
- The shipwreck involved a wooden sailboat that departed Turkey and broke on rocks near the shore of Calabria, making it one of Italy's deadliest migrant tragedies.
- In a separate case last year linked to the Cutro incident, three people were found guilty of facilitating unlawful immigration that resulted in fatalities and were sentenced to prison terms as long as 16 years, while Deputy Prime Minister Salvini denounced the current trial decision as disgraceful.
- The trial is expected to begin in January, reflecting ongoing legal scrutiny of operations affecting migrant safety and raising debate over accountability for deadly incidents.
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The men under trial are challenged the crimes of manslaughter and multiple manslaughter in relation to the non-activation, the night of the shipwreck, the Sar, the Plan for the search and the rescue at sea
The beginning of the trial, before the Court of Crotone, was scheduled for 14 January.
Italian Officials on Trial Over Deadly Migrant Shipwreck
Six Italian officials are being tried for negligence in a 2023 migrant shipwreck near Cutro, which killed over 90 people. The trial follows allegations of mishandled operations during the disaster. An earlier case convicted three individuals for aiding illegal immigration related to the tragedy.
The six soldiers will have to answer for the crimes of manslaughter and multiple manslaughter in relation to the non-activation, the night of the shipwreck, of the Sar
The dispute is that of not having activated, the night of the shipwreck, the Plan for the search and the rescue at sea. On the charge of manslaughter and multiple manslaughter were sent back to judgment the six military, four of the Guard of finance and two of the Coast Guard, involved in the investigation on the shipwreck of the shipwreck of the shipwreck of Cutro, in Calabria. That night, was February 26, 2023, 94 migrants died, 35 of which mi…
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