While most of the corpse was intact, his face and hands were skeletonised, probably the work of sea animals. So why should we allow it if the ones who die are foreigners?”Cattaneo believes that indifference towards identifying the bodies is a “cultural” question. The rusting hulk has become a symbol of the hundreds of sea tragedies during the migration crisisIn February 2013, Tidball-Binz was visiting Milan. Cattaneo’s work would push her team at Labanof to the limit, as all of the difficulties in identification became apparent. “I collected it in Augusta, where I returned two years after the shipwreck,” Cattaneo says.

Source: The Guardian June 03, 2021 05:00 UTC