By Alexandria Sage, AFP
Photo: AFP / Alessandro Serrano
Six members of Italy's police and coastguard will go on trial Friday (local time) over a 2023 shipwreck that killed at least 94 migrants, accused of failing to intervene on time.
The disaster off the southern Calabrian coast was Italy's worst in a decade and set off a firestorm of criticism against far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's tough stance on the thousands of migrants who arrive by boat each year from North Africa.
Thirty-five children were among those killed when the boat crashed on the rocks off the coast of the tourist town of Cutro on 26 February
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