{"id":77695,"date":"2024-06-21T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/mourners-gather-on-the-italian-coast-after-at-least-60-people-killed-when-migrant-sailboat-capsized\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T02:16:10","slug":"mourners-gather-on-the-italian-coast-after-at-least-60-people-killed-when-migrant-sailboat-capsized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/mourners-gather-on-the-italian-coast-after-at-least-60-people-killed-when-migrant-sailboat-capsized\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourners gather on the Italian coast after at least 60 people killed when migrant sailboat capsized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the coastline of southern Italy, a small group gathered at the water’s edge.<\/p>\n

They could not go any further into the Ionian Sea although they clearly wished they could.<\/p>\n

“Is Europe<\/a><\/strong> worth all this trouble, I swear to God it’s not,” says a man called Setar.<\/p>\n

“Why put your wife and children through this?”<\/p>\n

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The shock is real, the feelings raw after the deaths of 60 or more migrants in the central Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

A sailboat packed with migrants capsized and sank, pitching its passengers into the water.<\/p>\n

They clung to the remains of the semi-submerged craft some 120 miles from the Italian coast but assistance – in the form of the coastguard – took four days to arrive.<\/p>\n

Only 11 managed to survive the ordeal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Smugglers organised the journey from a place near Bodrum in Turkey, using a well-used migration seaway through the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

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More than 70 paid for a spot in the vessel, with the majority formed by Kurds from Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n

Some passengers told their relatives that they would travelling “like VIPs”, but that was just a lie spun by the smugglers.<\/p>\n

There were few provisions on board.<\/p>\n

We found a woman called Mitra Ghasem Karimi, sitting under the hull of an old boat in the Italian port of Roccella Ionica.<\/p>\n

It was clear that Ms Karimi had been crying.<\/p>\n

Originally from Iran, she now lives in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. She told me that her brother Pourya, 41, and sister Somma, 36, had boarded that craft.<\/p>\n

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She said: “There was no water, there was no food in the boat – but to the families and the people who got in that damn boat, (the smugglers) said yes, there is water, food.<\/p>\n

“My brother and sister had life jackets, but they would not let them take them with them. Why?”<\/p>\n

Mitra and her husband said they wanted to hire a helicopter so they could fly over the remains of the vessel. I asked them what they were expecting to see.<\/p>\n

She replied: “Maybe some bodies, maybe I can find the body of my own brother and sister, to find the bodies and take them to my mum, so my mum can mourn.”<\/p>\n

Mitra had stowed her brother and sister’s Iranian passports securely in her bag, and she burst into tears as she took them out to show me.<\/p>\n

“They just wanted a better life, the people who got into that boat. Why can’t they have that life in their country, their damn country?” she said.<\/p>\n

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It took the best part of a day to hire a helicopter – along with 6,000 Euros in cash – but Mitra did not find the bodies of her brother and sister.<\/p>\n

Her siblings remain lost at sea.<\/p>\n

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But she has recordings of their voices stored on phone and she has hovered above the waters where they lost their lives.<\/p>\n

It may have brought her a small measure of peace.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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