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MAZARA DEL VALLO (Trapani) The seizure of the two boats and 18 Sicilian fishermen blocked in Benghazi for 10 days runs the risk of becoming an indecent proposal, “however inadmissible”. Because from Libya, not from Tripoli of the trembling government recognized by the UN, but from circles considered close to Cyrenaica, General Khalifa Haftar rebounds in Italy the proposal for a negotiation that would hold hostages fishermen accused of having violated Libyan waters. Hostages to trade with four Libyans arrested in 2015 in Catania, tried at the Corte di Assise and the Supreme Court, sentenced to 30 years as migrant smugglers and murderers. However, considered by friends, family and Libyan militiamen only as alleged “young players”.
Direct forwards in Germany
A strange thesis supported by a swarm of relatives lined up in the port of Benghazi with posters directed at Haftar because they would not be traffickers, but strikers and wingers who wanted to reach Germany to register as professionals in the big teams: “Footballers in search of fortune, migrants like those who traveled with them, not smugglers.
Not just smugglers, but brutal killers
Quite the opposite of what was found by the Judiciary now puzzled by this hypothesis defined as “disgusting” by the Catania prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro: “Apart from the young players. They were not convicted only for being in command of the boat, but also for murder Having caused the death of those they were carrying, 49 migrants remained in the warehouse. Let yourself die ruthlessly. Block the hatch to avoid finding them on deck. One of the most brutal incidents ever recorded.
Fishermen’s relatives protest
It is a surreal picture because the request is for the “assassins” to return to Libya to resume play for teams in and around Benghazi. An image destined to stoke political controversy and open a complex diplomatic page, while the intelligence services act invoking confidentiality. But the relatives of the 18 Sicilians reunited with the owners of the two fishing boats, Antarctica and Medinea, fear that the silence will not help free the fishermen.. All collected in a warehouse in the port of Mazara. I decided to protest against “the ineffectiveness of the Italian government”, as Leonardo Gancitano, the Antarctic shipowner says: “We realized that only Turkey and France have relations with that part of Libya. And so we thought that perhaps it would be better to turn to Macron, than to Conte … “He echoed a bitter consideration as many thanked only a deputy elected in Mazara with the Five Star, Vita Martinciglio, while Gancitano sinks:” She is the only one who gives us news. The others participated in the electoral campaign. Distracted by what would turn into blackmail, if the news of an exchange really materialized. “And he tries to console desperate women like Rosaria Giacalone, wife of the chief engineer of one of the two fishing boats, or Rosa Ingargiola , mother of Pietro Marrone, the commander of the Medinea: “You don’t sleep at night, you cry during the day, I want to see my son …”.
The exchange? “Legal enormity”
The specter of blackmail appears. But all space for negotiation seems to vanish before a trial with the defendants considered responsible for what was called “the massacre of August 15”. Five years ago the four Libyans, all between 23 and 25 years old, Joma Tarek Laamami, Abdel-Monsef, Mohannad Jarkess and Abd Arahman Abd Al Monsiff, with four Moroccans, also convicted and imprisoned, were accused of not having been released. the 49 migrants locked in the warehouse. For this Prosecutor Zuccaro considers the possibility of a “hostage exchange” a legal enormity:“I don’t think we are questioned, but as legal operators we would be absolutely against it. It would be disgusting.
September 14, 2020 (change September 14, 2020 | 07:47)
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