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17 June 2020The body of a few months old girl, victim of the sinking last Saturday off the coast of Libya, has been recovered on the beach of Sorman.There were 32 migrants on the boat six nautical miles off the coast of Zawiya. Twenty would have been rescued by the fishermen. The missing would be 11. Another child among them.
3 days after the 13 June shipwreck off #Zawiya, the body of a little girl was washed up on the beach of Sorman. We send strength & solidarity to the relatives & condemn these endless killings at the borders of Europe. #BlackLivesMatter also in the #Med. https://t.co/cl9jTajsVC
- Alarm Phone (@alarm_phone) June 16, 2020Smuggler arrested
The Tunisian authorities have arrested an alleged smuggler, one of the most dangerous for crossing the Italian coast. The 56-year-old man allegedly organized the tragic shipwreck on 9 June. The sunken boat, in front of the coast of Kerkennah, claimed the lives of 60 sub-Saharan migrants, 28 women, 3 children and a Tunisian who was at the helm. The spokesman for the Central Coast Guard District, Ali Ayari, told the Tap agency. For the man, the prosecutor has ordered pre-trial detention in prison, while searches continue to capture two of his accomplices involved in the operation. The boat, according to the first elements of the investigation opened by the judiciary, had left Sfax on the night between 4 and 5 June, directed towards the Italian coasts.