LAMPEDUSA – Yet another tragedy of immigration. This led to the administrative decision of transfer of 11 bodies of migrants recovered at sea in port of Lampedusa with a transshipment in progress from one ship of an NGO on patrol boats of the Port Authority.
In this context, the prosecutor of Agrigento Giovanni Di Leo highlighted in a note “the multiple ones critical issues of order regulatory, humanitarian And constitutional on rescue at sea”.
Prosecutor Di Leo contests the decision
Di Leo observes: “According to what was communicated by the Judicial Police, the NGO ship was given Genoa as its port of disembarkation. At the Agrigento Prosecutor’s Office, for the facts committed in international waters it would end up being this way granted jurisdiction over the casein relation to destination of the bodies recovered in the open seawho as victims of the crime of aiding and abetting of illegal immigrationwould create the conditions for asserting jurisdiction and competence over the case”.
“Any investigation into the case itself, however, would have to wait the arrival In the port of Genoa of all informed people (crew, rescued people etc..), and be done obviously with delegation to that judicial authority or to the police force“highlights the Prosecutor.
Lampedusa cannot preserve such a high number of corpses
“Likewise, the Genoa Prosecutor’s Officeif he wanted to maintain his own jurisdiction over the case, he should carry out the investigations urgent on the bodies landed in Lampedusa, sending them several days after their transfer to land, and probable burial“.
“The island of Lampedusa it is not equipped – continues Di Leo – for the preservation of such a thing high number of corpses. Also in this case, therefore, we cannot understand the choice made to have them disembark in Lampedusa instead of, for example, in Porto Empedocle, where docking the ship would avoid a transhipment at sea”.
The Prosecutor concludes: “The application of criminal lawthe checks envisaged by the procedural code as mandatory, the very determination of jurisdiction and criminal competence itself He can notaccording to the Constitution, to be remittance to decisions discretionary of the political-administrative authoritybut only to the law itself.”
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