Migrants thrown into the sea by boat, in fifteen arrested in Palermo – The XIX Century

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Palermo – would 12 people thrown into the sea from a boat load of migrants from Libya was reaching the coast of Sicily during a fight between Muslims and Christians. The police detained 15 people suspected of multiple murder that would have been recognized by other migrants.

According to the testimonies of other refugees on the boat would start a fight for religious reasons and Muslims would have overwhelmed the Christians and they would thrown overboard.

15 immigrants stopped by police

Fifteen immigrants were subjected to police custody by the Judicial squad of Palermo (video at the opening of ‘ Article) . 12 people would be thrown into the sea by a boat load of migrants from Libya was reaching the coast of Sicily during a fight between Muslims and Christians. The police detained 15 people suspected of multiple murder that would have been recognized by other migrants with for allegedly thrown into the sea during the crossing of the Strait of Sicily their nine companions Christian. I have stopped all Muslims and among them there is also a minor.

The reconstruction of what happened on board

According rebuilt according to testimonies other refugees on the boat would start a fight for religious reasons and Muslims have overwhelmed the Christians and have them thrown overboard. The police would have collected “a coherent,” is learned from judicial sources, and there would also awards Photographs of some of the suspects.

A report was delivered this morning to the prosecutor Maurizio Scalia. The prosecutor now has 48 hours to ask for validation of the arrest . The 15 arrested are part of one of the three groups of refugees landed yesterday in Palermo with three different ships that they had rescued in the Channel of Sicily.

The charge: multiple murder aggravated by religious hatred

I stopped, Ivorian, Malian and Senegalese, are accused of multiple murder aggravated by religious hatred. They load there are statements of refugees Nigerians and Ghanaians, who were part of the same group landed in the port of Palermo yesterday morning with the merchant ship “Ellensborg.” The witnesses, many in tears, told of being escaped hatred of their fellow .

He had embarked on a boat April 14, started from the Libyan coast and packed with 105 people, mostly Senegalese and Ivorian. During the crossing, Nigerians and Ghanaians, in the minority on board, were threatened with death and being abandoned in the water, by fifteen men of Ivorian nationality, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau. The reason for the resentment, the Christian religion of the victims, for this unpopular Muslim attackers. Twelve Nigerians and Ghanaians were thrown into the waves, the survivors would be saved by fighting against the attempt of drowning, in some cases even forming a real human chain. Investigations are still underway to identify any other responsible.

Witnesses tell of another wreck

Five of the 586 immigrants landed this morning in Trapani with the ship ‘Foscari “of the Navy claimed to be the only survivors of a shipwreck in which their comrades dead 40 . The refugees, two of whom said they were from Nigeria, one of Niger and two from Ghana, told of being part of a group of 45 people, set sail from Libya on a boat that capsized after a few hours of sailing.

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