He Pope francesco today he renewed his sentence for trafficking in human beings and requested that he be detained, a week later 70 migrant children, women and men died near the Italian coast in the wreck of a boat rented by traffickers.
“stop human traffickersmay they not continue to dispose of the lives of so many innocents!», asked the Pope, a fervent defender of refugees, at the end of the Angelus prayer.
“May journeys of hope never again become journeys of death!May the clear waters of the Mediterranean no longer be filled with blood with such dramatic accidents! added the 86-year-old pontiff.
In pronouncing these words, Jorge Bergoglio showed himself very excitedand then silence fell in front of the crowd gathered outside St. Peter’s Square in Rome, AFP news agency reported.
The death toll from the tragedy that took place last Sunday on the coast of Crotone, in Calabria, is around 70, including around 15 minors, and the lifeguards continue to search for the victims.
Three people suspected of human trafficking have been arrested.
According to Italian media, each of the migrants had paid between 5,000 and 8,000 euros when they embarked in Turkey three days before the shipwreck.
The Pope has distinguished himself in defending the rights of migrants and has called on many occasions to correct the situations of insecurity or poverty that drive millions of people to try to cross the Mediterranean from Africa or the Middle East.
He has also repeatedly condemned human trafficking, which he once described as an “open wound in the body of all mankind”.
“Human trafficking is violence! The violence suffered by every woman and girl is an open wound in the body of Christ, in the body of all humanity; it is a deep wound that affects all of us too”, she said in February 2022 on the occasion of the VIII Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking.
Source: Clarin
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