A dramatic odyssey that goes beyond life and without any return. At a distance ofthe two weeks after the shipwreck which occurred 120 miles off the Ionian coast of ReggioAlso lifeless, the migrants continue their pilgrimage. One of the dozens of bodies recovered – the official total number of 36released after a series of incomplete and fragmentary information from the authorities, already questioned by another bulletin which remained confidential between the Coast Guard and Ministries but released by Radio Radicale which speaks of 41 corpses recoveredi – it also arrived in Reggio Calabria last night.
She was welcomed at the morgue of the Morelli del Gom complex. It’s about a woman who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy when he took that last sea voyageal which she and the life she carried would not survive.
Il Syrian brother-in-law, arrived from Englandfollowed the body until here to perform the recognition. It seems there were three women travelling in advanced pregnancy. So it would have been necessary locate other elements for a certain identification.
The torment within the torment
The recognition, however, was not successful. The condition of the body, due to the two weeks have already passed since the tragedy and also of the unspecified permanence of the same body in the water immediately after the shipwreckthey did not allow to man to be certain that it could be the wife of the brother and of the unborn nephew or niece. Date at lack of direct kinship and blood ties, not even the path to recognition via DNA will be viable.
The torment within the tormentThe man had a photo of his brother’s family with him today. He was travelling from Syria with his pregnant wife and two little girlsat the moment all missing.
Fragmentary information and the “journeys” of the bodies
The fragmentation of information yields on this shipwreck is investing not only the moment of rescue but also the management of the bodies.
Initially the Municipality of Reggio Calabria had been alerted for a possible ship that, not being able to enter the port of Roccella, would have docked at the port of Reggio Calabria. The Prefecture also mobilised the volunteers who They usually take care of the reception at the migrant port. They had already expressed their willingness to act as a liaison and to accompany mediators and family members who would arrive here for recognition.
The ship Dattilo is instead at the port of Gioia Tauro. The bodies disembarked would be taken to Polistena and perhaps also in Messina. Perhaps. Reconstructing is very difficult. The Gom of Reggio had also been questioned e had expressed willingness to accept the bodies and carry out the DNA test. Ma then the port of destination was Gioia Tauro and no longer Reggio.
The reconstruction of What happened and what is still happening remains very complicated. Dioceses from all over Calabria, meanwhile, have given the willingness to bear the expenses per l‘possible repatriation of the bodies. Even at diocese of Reggio Calabria Bova was asked taking charge of a body. Commitment promptly accepted. However, repatriation appears not to have been requested for all the bodies.
The pain, the torment and the danger of indifference
While the the frenzy of news and everyday life pushes this shipwreck away from the mind, family members from all over Europe are looking for their loved ones with the heartbroken. The aftermath of this perpetual injustice, That is obviously embarrassing and is better left unsaid, they are still in existence and will continue to be.
The echoes of this pain that never ends for those who don’t even find a body to cry forsat the moment they move and stir consciencesma then they seem to run out too easily. Too fast, without there being time to permanently straighten the course.
“Acceptable” deaths
It would be important and necessary to tell and make known as much as possible to return a glimmer of humanity to what distances us from the human. To try to scratch that dangerous climate of addiction, a close relative of indifference and complicity, and what is now one certainty: dying like this is permitted and tolerated. Acceptable deaths that will never have truth and justice.
Despite the proclamations and good intentions expressed in words, There are deaths that can remain invisibleThat they must be forgotten without ever having been known.
