The works for the realization of the international migrant cemetery are about to take back to Tarsia. On April 25, at the former concentration camp of Ferramonti, on the occasion of the anniversary of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation Feast, the mayor of Tarsia, made it known on April 25th, Roberto Ameruso. To take back and give the news today is the leader of the civil rights movement, Franco Corbellipromoter of the great humanitarian work, (for whose construction it has been uninterruptedly engaged for 12 years, by the tragedy of Lampedusa of 3 October 2013) and present yesterday in Ferramonti. “The works of the monumental cemetery of migrants, who began a few days before Christmas 2018, and went on for a year”, says Corbelli, “then stopped, due to pandemic and for the exhaustion of the first contribution, granted by the Calabria Region, by the will of the former president Mario Oliverio. Today thanks to the governor Roberto Occhiuto, he arrived at the Municipality of Tarsia a second funding that will allow the construction site to reopen”.
Corbelli expresses “great satisfaction” and thanks Occhiuto, “together with which for over 3 years, from December 2021, we have, in collaboration with the municipal administration of Tarsia, worked incessantly to overcome the various bureaucratic obstacles that have met and to get to the solution of the problem that will now allow you to use this second funding, for the resumption of works, waiting, then with another, last tranche of contributions, to arrive at the very large work”. “This is the largest humanitarian work linked to the tragedy of immigration, unique of the genre in the world, known – says Corbelli – and appreciated by Pope Francis (which I would have liked to visit it once completed and that I am sure today will be happy to see her leave and bless her from the sky) and from the Vatican and, as well as in Italy, also at an international level, I remember in a highly symbolic place, Almost 30 thousand square meters, immersed between centuries -old olive trees (which will remain intact), right in front of the lake and the old municipal cemetery (partly Jewish) and a short distance from the former larger fascist concentration camp in Italy, that of Ferramonti di Tarsia, a place of captivity during the Second World War but where humanity and solidarity has always prevailed and none of the over 3000 internees, Solidarity and human, over 10 years ago, I have identified and chosen this place. Where to go one day to look for them to be able to bring a flower and say a prayer. The cemetery of tarsia migrants will cancel this inhumanity. He will be named after the Syrian child Alan Kurdi, who died in a tragic shipwreck together with the young mother Rehana and the brother Galip, in September 2015, in front of the coasts of Turkey and became the symbol of the immense tragedy of immigration. The day of the inauguration of this great work will be in Tarsia the father and paternal aunt of the child, who lives in Canada and with whom they have been in contact for several years “.