Migrants Lost in the Briny Deep Off Calabria

                                             O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dashed all to pieces…

The Tempest, Act 1, scene 2 (spoken by Miranda)

A large migrant ferry carrying hundreds of culture-enrichers exploded and sank off the coast of Calabria in southern Italy (the toe of the Italian “boot”). 59 bodies have been recovered, with more expected. 81 survivors were rescued and are being taken care of in hospitals and an asylum center.

Below are excerpts from a story about the shipwreck. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating part of this article from RaiNews:

Mass death of migrants at Crotone: Among the 59 bodies recovered, 12 minors and 33 women; 81 survivors

The number of victims is provisional. Guardia di Finanza and firemen continue the search. “There was an explosion on board,” says a survivor. Interior Minister Piantedosi is at Crotone. An alleged smuggler arrested

February 25, 2023

Mass death of migrants before dawn in the sinking of a barge broken into a thousand pieces in front of the Calabrian coast. The number of bodies recovered has reached 59, among them 12 minors and 33 women after the tragedy at Steccato di Cutro. 46 were found at the scene and another three on the beach at Botricello (Catanzarese). Another eight at “La Castella” (Capo Rizzuto Island) and one at Crotone, where the body was transported after recovery.

As of this time, 81 persons have been saved after the attempted landing at Cutro, some 20 kilometers from Crotone.

The bodies are being recovered at sea as time passes, whether offshore or on the beach. Among the victims is also a newborn a few months old: His body, according to the dramatic testimony of a fireman, is among those taken out of the water by rescuers and police who are continuing operations, complicated by strong winds and rough seas.

The survivors, all under 30 years of age, were treated on the beach and given food and water by 118 emergency personnel and the Red Cross, but many people are still missing.

Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi is at Crotone. After a brief inspection on the beach at Steccato di Cutro, he proceeded to the prefecture for a meeting with all the representatives of the territory and police.

Of the 81 survivors, 59 were lodged at the asylum center of Capo Rizzuto Island, while others were treated at the civilian hospital at Crotone, among them a 9-year-old child in intensive care.

The prefect of Crotone, after activating the Rescue Coordination Center, ordered that the bodies of the victims recovered be transferred to Pala Milone, the sports center located within the city.

Police are trying to gather statements from survivors to understand how many were on the sunken boat, which seems to have been carrying between 200-250 migrants coming from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria. An alleged smuggler has been arrested.

This was one of so many trips of hope that follow the Turkish route, the one most used by migrants coming from countries in that area.

“There was an explosion on board,” one of the rescued migrants told rescuers. “Some bodies, in fact, showed burns.”

10 thoughts on “Migrants Lost in the Briny Deep Off Calabria

  1. It looks like there is a spook operation to start stopping these orc invaders, well done boys! Let’s get those numbers pumped up.

  2. If the EU did not encourage and reward illegal immigration, apparent accidents, such as this “mass death,” (is that boat violence?), would not be as likely to happen.

    • Mass death? These are rookie number, when they get in the millions, then I will be impressed.

  3. This people with obvious low IQ didn’t think before they took the kids and baby’s to this route ? Why just apply legally like the way should be ?, or better- stay where you are don’t come to Europe!!!, Europe is full .. look what happened to Pamela Mastropietro- one of this monsters came to Italy for “ better life „ the consequences of this are horrific..

    • When you become a Muslim you get a low IQ.
      That’s why the European elite wishes to spread the religion of Islam all over the West so they will be able to manipulate us.
      The Grecoroman civilisation and Chistianity will become past.
      In my country🇬🇷 Christianity is under attack from almost all the political parties and I wonder if our archbishop is really a Christian.
      Really I feel very unhappy.
      My world is in ruins and I loose all the things i love.

      • Except it doesn’t work this way. Muslims may be called a number of things but not susceptible to manipulation where their religious core is concerned. And that core happens to be utterly incompatible with the Leftists’ and Wokesters’ lines of thinking, if one can call it thinking at all. They are so hopelessly wired the wrong way, it’s just flummoxing how they don’t see their own inevitable destruction in this. Even the idea of the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend doesn’t account for such a degree of shortsightedness. We would still have our ideological battles if they were sufficiently reasonable at least within their own field, but the way this is going, none of us will have a future in the world these cretins are preparing. “The Last Generation” is no explanation, either, because a) not all of the Left identifies with that, and b) they’ll have us replaced with the most aggressively fecund group on Earth. It is nothing but sheer madness.

  4. How many of the 81 survivors were military age males? I notice the lack of breakdown of this category. My suspicion is that in the event of emergency, women and children are jettisoned by the strong Isl*mic men to save themselves.

    • I don’t know the final breakdown but the photos of survivors I have seen suggest that they are mostly young men.

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