The forgotten shipwreck

The forgotten shipwreck
 An investigation by Reuters and BBC Newsnight has, for the first time, revealed the untold story of what is understood to be the biggest single shipwreck of a migrant boat in 2016. More than 500 people are believed to have died, but there has been no inquiry into the deaths.On 9 April this year, in the hold of a trawler, more than 300 people sat in the dark, feeling the boat rock in the rough sea. Among them was Muaz Ayimo, a young Ethiopian, holding on to his baby girl and his wife. On deck, a feeder fishing boat carrying 200 more migrants, chiefly from the Horn of Africa, was roped to the trawler and the fresh cargo was taken on board. The 70ft trawler, now horribly overloaded, listed to one side then the other as the panicking migrants tried to maintain the vessels balance.   But 500 people weigh roughly 10 tonnes and that weight, shifting fast, is a killer at sea. Suddenly, there was a terrible cracking sound of broken timber and then the trawler capsized.                                                                                                                                      In panic, as the trawler turned, people fell on top of Muaz, and his daughter and his wife slipped out of his hands: I keep hearing their voices and think about the times we had together.  Muaz, a strong swimmer, managed to reach the surface where he swam through dead bodies to reach the people smugglers fishing boat. There was no moon but the fishing boat had one light which he swam towards. He was hauled in and, in turn, he helped two of his friends to board. He tried to help a third but then a smuggler hit him, then threatened him with a knife - and so the man fell back into the sea. The fishing boat sailed off, leaving around 100 people still alive - still swimming - to drown. Thirty-seven people survived the sinking - including Muaz. His wife and daughter did not. They and more than 500 others perished at sea. Europol to investigate Egypt mass drowning The migration machine                                                                                                                                                           Image caption                                      Muazs wife and daughter both died in the sinking                                                    The trawler was wickedly overloaded: the charge for that is manslaughter. The abandoning of the 100 people swimming in the sea: murder. A charge that a lawyer acting on behalf of some of the families of the Egyptian victims hopes to pursue in court. But no such charges of manslaughter or murder have been brought, because there has been no proper investigation. Greece, the country where the 37 survivors landed, has not investigated - nor has any United Nations body, the European Unions frontier agency, the EU police agency, Europol, nor any maritime agency, Nato, nor the two EU naval task forces in the Mediterranean. The UN estimates that 4,663 people have died this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean. That makes it the most deadly year on record.And - just as with this sinking - the disasters are routinely not investigated. They fall into a gap in international law. Like and share more for more. Please subscribe. See you in different news!
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