MAZARA DEL VALLO (Trapani) – Compensation for damages of one million euros for each of the 18 Mazara del Vallo fishermen blocked in Benghazi for 108 days. This is the request made to the Libyan government by the seafarers (eight Italians, six Tunisians, two Indonesians and two Senegalese) who remained in prison for months following the seizure, which took place on 1 September last, of the two mazarese “Medinea” fishing boats. and “Antarctica” in international waters, approximately 35 miles off the Libyan coast.
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on Alan David Scifo
The request is contained in a letter signed by the crew members themselves (Pietro Marrone, Onofrio Giacalone, Giovanni Bonomo, Michele Trinca, Vito Barracco, Salvo Bernardo, Fabio Giacalone, Giacomo Giacalone, Karoui Mohamed, Ibrahim Mohamed, Mathlouthi Habib, Ben Haddada M’hamed, Jemmali Farhat, Ben Thameur Hedi, Moh Samsudin, Indra Gunawan, Daffe Bavieux and Ben Thameur Lysse) sent to Libya and also to the Italian government, the European Union and the United Nations for information.
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“We suffered the pains of hell – they wrote – the guards never missed an opportunity to shoot in the air. Today we are all paying for the psycho-physical consequences of those days together with our family and we expect a decisive investigation by all of you, so that such events no longer occur “. To support the request of the 18 fishermen are the trade unionists Tommaso Macaddino (Uila Pesca) and Giovanni Di Dia (Flai Cgil), who affirm: “silence has fallen on the matter, even more disturbing due to the fact that the agenda of recent talks between the Italian government and the new Libyan government did not address the issue of the safety of our fishermen in international waters in front of Libya “.