Little Anas and the 18 of the shipwreck of February 5 (2024)
The story of Anas and the 18 Tunisians who died in the shipwreck of February 5, 2024
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memories
The Massacre of Steccato di Cutro (2023): Shahid’s voice
The voice and the pain of Shahid, a year after the disappearing of his brother, died in the massacre of Cutro
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Ghassen, Iheb, Aymen, Maher (2022)
Ghassen, Iheb, Bilel, Aymen and Maher are five boys whose bodies arrived in Cagliari, Sardinia, in late August 2022. They were originally from Biserta, a town on the northern Tunisian coast, very close to the Sardinian coast and Sicily. Ghassen was an only child, had completed his education and had a high school diploma. Months
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Wissem Ben Abdel Latif (2021)
Wissem Ben Abdel Latif died at dawn on Nov. 28, 2021, at the age of 26 from cardiovascular arrest while strapped to a bed in a psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital. He died after crossing the Mediterranean on a barge, without ever having experienced a single moment of freedom in Italy, without having been
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Fedi Ben Hammouda (2021)
Fedi Ben Hammouda, a young 20-year-old who dreamed of making it in Europe. He had long felt that Tunisia lacked the minimum conditions to live well, and so in February 2021 he decided to leave with his cousin by boat, leaving the shores of Kelibia. Not far from Pantelleria, Fedi apparently jumped to reach the
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Hamdi Besbes (2020)
Hamdi Besbes, a Tunisian native of Monastir, disappeared in the waters off Lampedusa in July 2020. Hamdi was on a Tunisian fishing boat with other fishermen. The boat, upon reaching Lampedusa, was seized and its crew arrested, but Hamdi never made it ashore and was never found. Hamdi was a mechanic and an avid swimmer.
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Hedi and Mehdi Khenissi (2019)
Hedi and Mehdi, young Tunisians aged 24 and 22, left by boat from Bizerte in November 2019 to reach Italy, along with Akram, Anis, Kais. The two brothers were two students, but their family’s difficult living conditions had prompted them to start working. They helped their father in fishing activities in the waters of Bizerte
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Lazhar Chaieb (2019)
Lazhar Chaieb was 33 years old when he set sail from Sfax on October 6, 2019, in a boat loaded with dozens of people. Before he became ill, he had worked in a restaurant in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Sfax where he had always lived with his family. After her visa application was
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Ramzi Walhazi (2011)
Ramzi was a young man in his 20s from Tunisia. He left Al Haouria, Tunisia, on March 1, 2011, for the Trapani coast of Sicily with a group of friends from the same Tunis neighborhood. Their mother Fatma and sister Latifa have long supported the explanation that justifies the youths’ disappearance by prolonged detention in
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Mohamed and Bechir Mili (2011)
Mohamed Mili and Bechir Mili, two brothers, ages 22 and 25, left on March 2, 2011, from Al Haouria in Tunisia for the Sicilian coast of Trapani. Mohamed and Bechir were both very active and enterprising young men; they had graduated from vocational colleges. They did not want to stay in their country where there
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