Kapal Karam di Italia, Lebih 300 Migran Afrika Tewas
More than 300 African Migrants Deaths after the Boat Sank Off in Italy
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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INILAH gambar pertama yang muncul dari perahu migran yang tenggelam di lepas pantai Lampedusa, Italia, yang menewaskan lebih dari 300 orang.
Pemadam kebakaran Italia merilis rekaman video hasil pencarian tim penyelam menjangkau puing-puing perahu yang tenggelam di lepas pantai pulau Lampedusa, yang berada 40 meter di bawah gelombang.
Tim menyelam mengatakan mereka berharap menemukan mayat lebih dari 100 orang bagian dari 250 orang yang masih hilang setelah tragedi.
Kapten Tunisia dituduh melakukan perdagangan manusia terhadap ratusan orang, yang tenggelam saat perahu mereka tenggelam di lepas pantai Sisilia, setelah dideportasi dari Italia, seperti diungkapkan seorang menteri senior pemerintah Italia.
Diklaim ada 111 orang ketika perahu terbakar dan terbalik, setengah mil di lepas pantai Lampedusa, ujung selatan Uni Eropa. 155 penumpang lain telah diselamatkan sementara 250 orang lainnya belum ditemukan.
Gambar-gambar dramatis yang dirilis ini mengungkap bagaimana mengangkat penumpang dari sungai, terungkap pula salah satu penumpang yang selamat ditangkap kemarin diidentifikasi sebagai salah satu pelaku perdagangan manusia.
Wakil Perdana Menteri Angelino Alfano mengatakan: 'Para penyelundup yang ditangkap adalah pria Tunisia berusia 35 tahun yang diusir dari Italia pada April dan dipulangkan, tapi dia kembali melakukan perdagangan manusia seperti yang tertangkap ini."
"Tidak ada alasan untuk berpikir bahwa apa yang terjadi kemarin di Lampedusa adalah untuk terakhir kalinya," katanya kepada parlemen.
Jaksa telah membuka penyelidikan kriminal sebagai tindak pidana pembunuhan, membantu imigrasi ilegal dan menyebabkan kapal karam.
Hari ini 140 peti mati tiba di pulau tersebut, di mana puluhan mayat tak dikenal berjajar di kamar mayat darurat di hanggar bandara.
Para penyelam sebelumnya menyatakan menghentikan pencarian mereka tetapi sekarang telah mencapai ke perahu, meskipun tidak ada lagi korban yang diharapkan dapat selamat.
Catatan mengerikan mengungkap bagaimana upaya penyelamatan untuk menarik pelaut yang kelelahan di laut.
Sebuah keluarga nelayan menyelamatkan 18 orang. Domenico Colapinto menceritakan bagaimana, setelah berjam-jam berada di air, para migran terlalu lemah untuk mampu menyelamatkan diri. Dia berkata: "Kami menyediakan dua tangga, dan menurunkannya mereka berteriak Naikkan naikkan! Tidak ada yang mampu bergerak."
Gambaran pulau sempurna, bagian dari Italia, tetapi hanya berjarak 70 mil di lepas pantai Tunisia, kerap menjadi pintu masuk dari 'belakang' ke Eropa oleh ribuan migran.
Di musim panas ribuan oleh melakukan perjalanan berbahaya, perahu sering penuh sesak dan berbahaya.
Runtuhnya pemerintahan diktator di Libia dan Tunisia membuat berakhirnya perjanjian yang menempatkan upaya pengawasan pada eksodus 'manusia perahu' dari Afrika.
Delapan puluh persen dari mereka tiba di pantai Italia berencana untuk membuat kehidupan baru di Inggris, peneliti Inggris memperkirakan. Meskipun aturan Uni Eropa yang melarang pencari suaka meninggalkan negara yang mereka singgahi pertama kali, dua puluh persen dari mereka akhirnya menetap di Inggris.
Upaya penyelamatan terhambat oleh genangan minyak, nelayan menjelaskan: "Mereka semua terkepung dalam bensin. Mereka terlepas ketika berupaya menolong mereka."
"Saya memegang seorang wanita tapi saya tidak bisa menahannya. Dia terjatuh ke air dan saya terus mengatakan padanya "tunggu tunggu".
Dia melanjutkan: "Dia menatapku dan bilang tidak apa-apa. Dia kelelahan. Dia bahkan tidak mampu mengambang. Saya melihatnya tenggelam tanpa bersuara, dengan mata yang terus menatapku."
THESE are the first pictures to emerge of the migrant boat that sank off of the Italian island of Lampedusa killing more than 300 people.
Italy's fire service has released video footage of divers reaching the wreckage of a boat which sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, 40 metres beneath the waves.
The diving team have said they expect to find the bodies of over 100 of the 250 people still missing following the tragedy.
The Tunisian captain accused of trafficking hundreds of migrants, who drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Sicily, had already been deported from Italy once, a senior government minister has revealed.
The boat claimed 111 lives when it caught fire and capsized, half a mile off the coast of Lampedusa, the southernmost tip of the EU. Another 155 people have been rescued while 250 are still unaccounted for.
As dramatic pictures were released of passengers being hauled from the water, it emerged that one of the survivors was arrested yesterday having been identified as one of the traffickers.
Deputy Prime Minister Angelino Alfano said: ‘The trafficker arrested is a 35-year-old Tunisian who had been expelled from Italy in April and repatriated, But he’s returned to human-trafficking with these results.’
'There is no reason to think that what happened yesterday in Lampedusa is the last time,' he told parliament.
Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into multiple manslaughter, aiding illegal immigration and causing shipwreck.
Today 140 coffins arrived on the island, where scores of unidentified bodies were lined up in a makeshift morgue in an airport hangar.
Divers previously called off their search but have now reached to boat, though no more survivors are expected.
Harrowing accounts have emerged of rescuers’ attempts to pull the exhausted seafarers from the water.
A family of fishermen saved 18 people. Domenico Colapinto told how, after hours treading water, the migrants were too weak to save themselves. He said: ‘We had two ladders and lowered them shouting ‘Come up come up!’ No one moved.’
The picture-perfect island, part of Italy, but just 70 miles off the coast of Tunisia, has become the backdoor entry to Europe for thousands of migrants.
In the summer thousands make the perilous crossing, often on overcrowded and dangerous boats.
The collapse of the dictatorships in Libya and Tunisia brought an end to agreements that placed some controls on the exodus of ‘boat people’ from Africa.
Eighty per cent of those arriving on Italian shores plan to make a new life in the UK, British investigators estimate. Despite EU rules that forbid asylum seekers from leaving the country that they arrive in, twenty per cent eventually settle in the UK.
Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into multiple manslaughter, aiding illegal immigration and causing shipwreck.
Today 140 coffins arrived on the island, where scores of unidentified bodies were lined up in a makeshift morgue in an airport hangar.
Divers previously called off their search but have now reached to boat, though no more survivors are expected.
Harrowing accounts have emerged of rescuers’ attempts to pull the exhausted seafarers from the water.
A family of fishermen saved 18 people. Domenico Colapinto told how, after hours treading water, the migrants were too weak to save themselves. He said: ‘We had two ladders and lowered them shouting ‘Come up come up!’ No one moved.’
The picture-perfect island, part of Italy, but just 70 miles off the coast of Tunisia, has become the backdoor entry to Europe for thousands of migrants.
In the summer thousands make the perilous crossing, often on overcrowded and dangerous boats.
The collapse of the dictatorships in Libya and Tunisia brought an end to agreements that placed some controls on the exodus of ‘boat people’ from Africa.
Eighty per cent of those arriving on Italian shores plan to make a new life in the UK, British investigators estimate. Despite EU rules that forbid asylum seekers from leaving the country that they arrive in, twenty per cent eventually settle in the UK.
Rescue attempts were hampered by an oil slick, the fisherman explained: ‘They were all covered in petrol. They slipped through our hands.
'I grabbed a woman but I couldn’t hold onto her. She fell in the water and I kept telling her "hold on hold on”.
He went on: ‘She looked at me and said nothing. She was exhausted. She couldn’t even stay afloat. I saw her go down like that without a sound, with those eyes that looked at me.’
