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03 October 2015
Iniziative (EN) -
Totem for Peace
The Fondazione Mediterraneo celebrated the "Second Day of Memory and Reception" dedicated to the memory of dead migrants at sea in Lampedusa on October 3, 2013.
"The wreck of October 3, 2013, which cost life to a" scary "number of migrants has put us" in the face of the shame of an immense massacre that could not be avoided "but which was borne by the people of Lampedusa who "He lent generously the first aid, saving dozens of dozens of shipwrecks."
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, writes in a message sent to the Mayor of the Island, Giusi Nicolini, on the occasion of the Second Memorial and Reception Day.
"The men of the Harbor Master's Office and the Italian Navy, as has happened on so many occasions, have been proud of professionalism and solidarity to tear other men, women, and children to death. Humanity acts in that and subsequent circumstances are a pride of pride for the whole country, but our conscience - says the Head of State - continues to be questioned by the pain of fleeing refugees, the violence of traffickers of beings human, the epoch-making character of the new migratory flows. "
President Capasso recalled the Foundation's initiatives since 2007 in favor of migrants and deposited a flower wreath in front of the "Totem of Peace with the urn of the Immigrant Ignoto" in the Piazzale Coast Guard of the Port of Naples.
