A twenty-year prison sentence has been requested for Gun Ufuk, a 29-year-old Turkish citizen believed to be one of the smugglers of the "Summer Love", the boat full of migrants that sank on 26 February 2023 in Steccato di Cutro with the death of 94 people .
A sentence to pay 2.1 million euros has also been requested. Ufuk, tried with a summary trial, is accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, negligent shipwreck, death as a consequence of another crime.
He is the only one of the four alleged smugglers who has chosen the abbreviated procedure, for the others the ordinary procedure is underway.
Ufuk was arrested on March 8 after being identified in Austria, where he had taken refuge after managing to escape. The lawyers for the defense and the civil parties are now speaking in front of the Crotone preliminary hearing judge Elisa Marchetto, including the Presidency of the Council of Ministers who has requested one million in compensation for damage to its image. The ruling is scheduled for late afternoon.
(Unioneonline/L)
