Cutro, one year after the massacre of migrants. Schlein pays tribute to the victims.

The night between 25 and 26 February 2023 a gulet started from Turkey, with on board 180 Guests, breaks in two, running aground amid the violence of the waves against a shoal a few meters from the coast of Picket fence of Cutro, in the Crotone area. The numbers are those of a massacre: 94 victims, Of which 34 are children.

«What happened a hundred meters from the Steccato di Cutro beach at dawn on February 26, 2023 could have been avoided. And for this, we want to denounce the Italian state", survivors of the shipwreck now say.

To the cry of «justice and truth» e «no more deaths at sea», the procession organized by the was held in Crotone Network February 26 in memory of the tragedy.

Among the demonstrators also the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. «We've been asking the same question for a year: How was it possible that the Coast Guard patrol boats didn't come out to help a vessel that had been known for hours to be in difficulty?"he said Schlein during the event.

Today the Municipality of Crotone inaugurated the “Ali's Garden”,  which is located at the entrance to the city and is 250 meters long and 9 meters wide. «The days of February 26 last year were very hard – said the mayor of Crotone, Vincent Voice -  but the Calabrians and the Crotones have shown extraordinary solidarity and humanity. The garden is beautiful, we wanted to dedicate it to Alì, a child who remained one of the few nameless but it was only identified by the acronym KR16M0».