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Portopalo di Capo Passero (Sicilian: ''Puortupalu'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily (Italy). It is about southeast of Palermo and about southwest of Syracuse. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,617 and an area of .〔All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.〕 == History == The sea off Portopalo was the scene of the worst shipping disaster to hit the Mediterranean since the Second World War.〔Information regarding this incident is taken from (a DW article on the incident )〕 In the early hours of December 26, 1996, a fishing vessel ''F174'' carrying more than 300 South Asian migrants sank off the coast of Sicily and 283 of them drowned. The catastrophe happened when the Yohan a merchant ship carrying the migrants from Greece approached the Sicilian Coast and nearly three hundred people were transferred from the freighter to a fishing boat that measured . During the operation the two vessels collided and the fishing vessel sank Some of their bodies remain trapped in the ship’s wreck, below the surface. For most of the following years the disaster was considered nothing more than a ghost story. Harbor officials and Fishermen from the port of Portopalo kept silent and the Italian government denied the tragedy ever took place, and refused to accept the testimonies of survivors. Salvatore Lupo, a local Fisherman began speaking out about the accident in 2001, after he found one of the victims’ identification cards in his fishing net. He then helped a journalist, Giovanni Mario Bellu, working for La Repubblica locate the wreck with an underwater robot equipped with cameras. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portopalo di Capo Passero」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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