"This story has never been told in its full truth, because the guilty have all cleared themselves. The authorities did not believe what the poor sailors who died said, and they sent them to die . This has made us suffer in our lives, always lived in search of the truth."
Speaking is Gavina Fois, 83 years old from Porto Torres, daughter of Salvatore Fois, the sailor who died at 38, together with six other men of the crew of the fishing boat Onda 82 years ago . It was sunk on May 6, 1943, after being hit by the cannon fire of an English submarine, the Safari , off the coast of Asinara and after having set sail from Porto Torres with the task of supplying the city and the territory with fish during the Second World War. Fifteen days earlier the sailors had stranded their nets in a submarine, but when they warned the authorities and the owner of the fishing boat himself, no one believed them, they accused them of being visionaries .
"We know the truth, as our mother told us, people who sacrificed themselves for their families, because they had been threatened with condemnation by the military court. They would have been shot if they had not gone out to sea, and they went out to sea knowing they would die as heroes , to save their children."
Gavina Fois was one year and four months old when the tragedy occurred, still with many dark points. «It was a shame, and many people speculated on it, and those who suffered that injustice remember it as if it were the first day», she adds «I am surprised, but this square should have been named after the heroes of the Wave a long time ago».
In 1965 the fishing vessel was salvaged by the Delfino shipowners.
