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The Tunisian Foreign Ministry announced the start of procedures for the recovery of the remains of six Tunisian migrants who died on an irregular migration journey off the coast of the Italian city of Trapani.
The ministry said in a statement that the bodies of migrants who have died since last October are scheduled to be transferred to Tunisia in two batches this week.
The announcement comes after numerous calls from the families of the victims to recover the remains of their sons, who were buried without their knowledge on Italian soil.
The identification of the deceased was completed through DNA analysis, with the Tunisian consulate in Palermo calling on the Tunisian authorities to provide them with genetic samples of the families of the missing.
Majdi al-Karbai, a political activist interested in immigration affairs in Italy, stressed the importance of recovering the remains, noting that the deceased were identified before burial.
Al-Karbai stressed the need to protect the rights of migrants and ensure that they are not violated, whether they are alive or dead.
It is noteworthy that the Italian authorities buried the six bodies in mid-January under the pretext that they rotted and could not be kept for a long time in the hospital’s mortuary rooms without prior notification to the diplomatic services of their country.
For its part, the International Organization for Migration announced today that the number of people missing in the Mediterranean increased in 2023, reaching 3,105 people, compared to 2,411 in 2022.
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