The first of the nine defendants for the fatal shipwreck off Pylos received a deadline to apologize tomorrow, while the same is expected to happen with the rest. The accused are charged with felony charges of forming a criminal organization, causing a shipwreck by negligence and endangering life

Yesterday Sunday late in the afternoon the long deposits given by 9 survivors who came from Malacca.

It’s about key witnesses and they had been asked to give additional testimony and they deny being related to migrant smuggling. Their involvement in the case that cost the lives of at least 78 people the arrested also refuse. Therefore, it is not excluded today, some defense attorneys to request a new deadline from the investigator as they have not received knowledge of the entire case file, then the new depositions.

It is noted that the Pakistani authorities also made arrests.

They arrested 10 people involved in the slave trade ringas it is estimated that over 200, maybe 300 people from Pakistan were on board.

Testimonies and testimonies of shock about the actions of traffickers

The testimonies and statements about the brutality of the traffickers and the inhumane conditions prevailing on the boat are shocking. Banging, yelling, cursing, humiliation. In the five days of travel from Libya and until they meet death on the doorstep of Europe, the migrants on the sapiocaravo experienced hell from the traffickers – their “torturers”. “They gave us food only if we gave them money. They cursed and beat us” they say and mention that the children and women were in the holds. The traffickers did not hesitate to pile people everywhere inside the fishing boat, even in the refrigerators.

Victims of the tragedy and the relatives of the people who perished. At the central Kalamata Port Authority they are still the relatives of the missing arrive from every corner of Europewith photographs in hand asking in despair about the fate of their own people, reading in vain the lists of the rescued.

They remained at the Kalamata hospital until yesterday Sunday 18 people, hospitalized. In the structure of Malacasa, where the rest of the total 104 rescued have been transferred, friends and family members flock daily to give them courage, but also desperate relatives of the missing, in a last ditch effort to find any information about their loved ones.

The investigations to locate survivors will continue todayfor the sixth day, with the participation of a navy frigate, three parasailing vessels, and a helicopter, but they are slowly coming to an end, as it is now considered unlikely that anyone got out alive from the floating coffin that carried the migrants.