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  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0613.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0529.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0507.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0441.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0421.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0409.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0396.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0382.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0378.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0375.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0326.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0272.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0246.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0240.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0239.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0219.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Il Duomo di Siracusa, a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: The cathedral of Siracusa, in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0166.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Il Duomo di Siracusa, a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: The cathedral of Siracusa, in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0160.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Una vista di Piazza del Duomo a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: A view of Piazza Duomo in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0113.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Una vista di Piazza del Duomo a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: A view of Piazza Duomo in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0089.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Il Duomo di Siracusa, a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: The cathedral of Siracusa, in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0012.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0600.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0594.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0416.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0407.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0340.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Glenda Raiti, avvocato di 37 anni, in posa per un ritratto al cocktail bar Cortile Verga a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: Glenda Raiti, a 37 years old lawyer, poses for a portrait at the Cortile Verga cocktail bar in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0334.jpg
  • SIRACUSA (SR) - 22 MARZO 2018: Un ragazzino in bicicletta in Piazza del Duomo a Siracusa il 22 marzo 2018. <br />
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Siracusa è considerata tra le città più ospitali d'Italia.<br />
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SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2018: A child rides his bike in Piazza Duomo in Siracusa, Italy, on March 22nd 2018.<br />
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Siacusa is considered one of the most coziest Italian cities.
    CIPG_20180322_GIOIA_Siracusa_M3_0036.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany with her travel companion Michele, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_6730.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_6825.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_7003.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_6734.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_7003.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: View of the Chianti region landscape in Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_7047.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany with her travel companion Michele, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_6854.jpg
  • Greve in Chianti, Italy - 9 September 2014: Journalist Tina Nachtmann rides a Vespa 125 Primavera of 1974 on a road trip through Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, Italy, on September 9th 2014.
    CIPG_20140909_ADAC-Vespa__M3_6835.jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 8 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here after being freshly cut, engraved and painted here at the Gibilisco marble-worker's workshop in Siracusa, Italy, on November 8th 2016. It will replace the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9" in the cemetery of Sortino.<br />
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Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
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On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
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Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
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Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
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Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies invol
    CIPG_20161108_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 8 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Gibilisco (60)  measures the marble that will be used for the gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, here at the Gibilisco marble-worker's workshop in Siracusa, Italy, on November 8th 2016.<br />
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Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
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On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
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Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
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Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161108_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 24 SEPTEMBER 2016: The gravestones of five of the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwrecks are seen here in the cemetery of Siracusa, Italy, on September 24th 2016.<br />
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On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
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Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
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Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20160924_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • ROSOLINI, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2016: Gravestones of unidentified migrants are seen here in the cemetery of Rosolini, Italy, on September 22nd 2016.<br />
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Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
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Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
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Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20160922_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2016: (L-R) Carlo Parini, head of the office of the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym), poses for a portrait behind his desk in the G.I.C.I.C. office in the Court House of Siracusa, Italy, on September 22nd 2016.<br />
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The Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C.) assigned policeman Angelo Milazzo the identification of 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck<br />
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On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
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Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
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Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
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Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20160922_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 21 SEPTEMBER 2016: Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym), shuffles through the files of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck for which he was assigned to identify 24 victims, in his office here in the Court House of Siracusa, Italy, on September 21st 2016.<br />
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On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
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Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
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The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
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Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
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Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are mo
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  • PRIOLO GARGALLO (SICILY), ITALY - 31 JULY 2013: Elio Vincenzi, the 65 years old husband of the missing and presumed dead Costa Concordia cruise ship passenger Mariagrazia Trecarichi, is here in the living room of his home in Priolo Gargallo, Italy, on July 31st 2013. Elio Vincenzi defines himself a "pantofolaio", an Italian word for "homebody" (a person who prefers staying at home), reason for which Mr Vincenzi didn't celebrate Mrs Trecarichi's 50th birthday on the Costa Concordia cruise ship. "I'm sorry my wife didn't get to know this new version of me, because since she disappeared I decided to take off my slippers and wear fins instead", Mr Vincenzi said.<br />
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Mariagrazia Trecarichi is missing since January 14th 2012, the day of her 50th birthday, after the Costa Concordia shipwrekck at the  Giglio Island in Tuscany, Italy. Of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 30 people died,, and two more passengers are missing and presumed dead, inclusding Mrs Trecarichi. Mariagrazia Trecarichi had survived two cancers and decided to celebrate her 50th birthday on the Costa Concordia.
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  • PRIOLO GARGALLO (SICILY), ITALY - 31 JULY 2013: Elio Vincenzi, the 65 years old husband of the missing and presumed dead Costa Concordia cruise ship passenger Mariagrazia Trecarichi, poses for a portrait in the living room by the piano, guitar and puzzle belonging to his wife, in their home in Priolo Gargallo, Italy, on July 31st 2013. Elio Vincenzi defines himself a "pantofolaio", an Italian word for "homebody" (a person who prefers staying at home), reason for which Mr Vincenzi didn't celebrate Mrs Trecarichi's 50th birthday on the Costa Concordia cruise ship. "I'm sorry my wife didn't get to know this new version of me, because since she disappeared I decided to take off my slippers and wear fins instead", Mr Vincenzi said.<br />
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Mariagrazia Trecarichi is missing since January 14th 2012, the day of her 50th birthday, after the Costa Concordia shipwrekck at the  Giglio Island in Tuscany, Italy. Of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 30 people died,, and two more passengers are missing and presumed dead, inclusding Mrs Trecarichi. Mariagrazia Trecarichi had survived two cancers and decided to celebrate her 50th birthday on the Costa Concordia.
    CIPG_20130731_STERN_CostaConcordia__...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO (SICILY), ITALY - 31 JULY 2013: Stefania Vincenzi, the 18 years old daughter of the missing and presumed dead Costa Concordia cruise ship passenger Mariagrazia Trecarichi, poses for a portrait by the plants left by her mother in the staircase of their home in Priolo Gargallo, Italy, on July 31st 2013. Stefania Vincenzi is running for the final selections of Miss Italy after winning the local contest in Sicily. The idea of participating at the beauty pageant came after Mariagrazia Trecarichi met a friend who organizes the local castings who told her Stefania suited the contest.<br />
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Mariagrazia Trecarichi is missing since January 14th 2012, the day of her 50th birthday, after the Costa Concordia shipwrekck at the  Giglio Island in Tuscany, Italy. Of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 30 people died,, and two more passengers are missing and presumed dead, inclusding Mrs Trecarichi. Mariagrazia Trecarichi had survived two cancers and decided to celebrate her 50th birthday on the Costa Concordia.
    CIPG_20130731_STERN_CostaConcordia__...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: A Lukoil gas station is here in front of the ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
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Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
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As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
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Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_Mavi...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: A Lukoil gas station is here in front of the ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_Mavi...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: An oil tanker is seen here at the ISAB / Lukoil oil terminal in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_Mavi...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: An aerial view of the ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_Mavi...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: An aerial view of the ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_Mavi...jpg
  • AUGUSTA, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The Augusta refinery is seen here in Augusta, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • AUGUSTA, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The Augusta refinery is seen here in Augusta, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • AUGUSTA, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The Augusta refinery is seen here in Augusta, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, SICILY, ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Davide Mauro (47), a shift worker at the ISAB / Lukoil refinery, poses for a portrait on the terrace of his home in Siracusa, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, SICILY, ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Davide Mauro (47), a shift worker at the ISAB / Lukoil refinery, poses for a portrait on the terrace of his home in Siracusa, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, SICILY, ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Davide Mauro (47), a shift worker at the ISAB / Lukoil refinery, poses for a portrait on the terrace of his home in Siracusa, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, SICILY, ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Davide Mauro (47), a shift worker at the ISAB / Lukoil refinery, poses for a portrait on the terrace of his home in Siracusa, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, SICILY, ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Davide Mauro (47), a shift worker at the ISAB / Lukoil refinery, poses for a portrait on the terrace of his home in Siracusa, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: A view of the ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: A workers walks towards the parking lot at the end of his shift at the ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: A Lukoil gas station is seen here next to the refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: A barista walks by the Bar La Conchiglia, a cafe frequented by workers of the ISAB / Lukiol refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The mayor of Priolo Gargallo Giuseppe "Pippo" Gianni (75) poses for a portrait in his office in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The mayor of Priolo Gargallo Giuseppe "Pippo" Gianni (75) poses for a portrait in his office in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The mayor of Priolo Gargallo Giuseppe "Pippo" Gianni (75) poses for a portrait in his office in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The mayor of Priolo Gargallo Giuseppe "Pippo" Gianni (75) is seen here during an interview in his office in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The mayor of Priolo Gargallo Giuseppe "Pippo" Gianni (75) is seen here during an interview in his office in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • AUGUSTA, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Trucks are seen here getting in and out of the Sonatrach refinery in Augusta, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • PRIOLO GARGALLO, SICILY,  ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: The ISAB / Lukoil refinery in Priolo Gargallo, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, SICILY, ITALY - 13 SEPTEMBER 2022: Carmelo Rapisarda (55), a CGIL trade union rep, poses for a portrait in his office in Siracusa, Italy on September 13th 2022.<br />
<br />
Italy has increased its imports of Russian crude despite EU efforts to end ties to Russian energy in an unintended consequence of western sanctions against the Kremlin.<br />
<br />
As a result, Italy has overtaken the Netherlands as the EU’s largest import hub for seaborne Russian crude. Two-thirds of of the Russian oil exported to Italy are destined for Augusta, a port in Sicily near the Russian-controlled ISAB refinery. The refinery, which is owned by Moscow-based company Lukoil, used to secure a variety of supplies worldwide thanks to credit lines from European banks. Although Lukoil is not under sanctions, lenders have stopped providing financing after the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, forcing the refinery to rely solely on supplies from its parent company.<br />
<br />
The effects of the embargo is destabilizing for the entire area, which employed about 30,000 people 30 years ago. The economic crisis of 2008, then the pandemid and now the war in Ukraine has made the situation just worse. Today the area employs 8,000 workers. Lukoil employs 1,000 workers and approximately 2,500 sub-contractors, whose jobs are now at risk.<br />
<br />
Because of the interconnection between Lukoil and other companies in the area, the economy of the entire industrial relies on the faith of the Russian-owned company.
    CIPG_20220913_NYT-Lukoil-Sicily_A7IV...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73, 1st from right), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometownn after she retired, has lunch with her extended family, here in her apartmenti in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73, 2nd from right), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometownn after she retired, prays with her extended family before lunch, here in her apartmenti in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometownn after she retired, serves a dish of pasta to her nephew for a lunch with her extended family, here in her apartmenti in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometownn after she retired, sets the table for lunch with her extended family, here in her apartmenti in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73, center), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, poses for a group portrait with her extended family in her living room in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, poses for a portrait in her living room next to a Swiss sled, cuckoo clock and cowbell in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, poses for a portrait in her living room next to a Swiss sled, cuckoo clock and cowbell in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: The view from the apartment of Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, is seen here in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: A Swiss sled, cuckoo clock and cowbell are seen here in the living room of Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: A souvenir mug from Zurich is seen here in a glass display cabinet with other souvenirs from Switzerland and countries visited by Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • LENTINI, ITALY - 14 NOVEMBER 2020: A glass display cabinet with souvenirs from Switzerland and other countries visited by Giuseppina Grasso (73), an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who returned to her hometown after she retired, is seen here in here home in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, on November 14th 2020.<br />
<br />
In 1964, at the age of 17 years old, Giuseppina Grasso emigrated to Zurich where she joined her two older sisters. She worked in a typography and then in an insurance company for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Returned in 2011 to her hometown of Lentini to live in the house she built with her sisters. <br />
<br />
Italians first immigrated to Switzerland on a large scale between 1950 and 1970, mainly working the construction, engineering and catering industries.<br />
<br />
They now number approximately 320,000 - the largest foreign community in Switzerland, according to official statistics for 2019.
    CIPG_20201114_NZZ-ItalianImmigrants_...jpg
  • NOTO, ITALY - 20 JUNE 2020: A wooden scultpure of a horse head is seen here on in jeweller Fabio Salini's Sicilian villa, where he retreats as oftens as he can, in the countryside of Noto, Sicily, Italy, on June 20th 2020.<br />
<br />
“I consider jewellery to be an expression of art. It has to be based not just on an aesthetic achievement but also on concept,” says Salini, who cut his teeth fashioning spectacular baubles for the likes of <br />
Bulgari<br />
 and <br />
Cartier<br />
, and continued to design for major houses after opening his swish atelier in Rome in 2004.
    CIPG_20200620_ROBB-REPORT_FabioSalin...jpg
  • NOTO, ITALY - 20 JUNE 2020: Jeweller Fabio Salini poses for a portrait next to the olive tree in the patio of his Sicilian villa, where he retreats as oftens as he can, in the countryside of Noto, Sicily, Italy, on June 20th 2020. Fabio Salini produces his own olive oil.<br />
<br />
“I consider jewellery to be an expression of art. It has to be based not just on an aesthetic achievement but also on concept,” says Salini, who cut his teeth fashioning spectacular baubles for the likes of <br />
Bulgari<br />
 and <br />
Cartier<br />
, and continued to design for major houses after opening his swish atelier in Rome in 2004.
    CIPG_20200620_ROBB-REPORT_FabioSalin...jpg
  • NOTO, ITALY - 20 JUNE 2020: Jeweller Fabio Salini's vintage Fiat 500 Giardiniera car is seen here in by his Sicilian villa, where he retreats as oftens as he can, in the countryside of Noto, Sicily, Italy, on June 20th 2020.<br />
<br />
“I consider jewellery to be an expression of art. It has to be based not just on an aesthetic achievement but also on concept,” says Salini, who cut his teeth fashioning spectacular baubles for the likes of <br />
Bulgari<br />
 and <br />
Cartier<br />
, and continued to design for major houses after opening his swish atelier in Rome in 2004.
    CIPG_20200620_ROBB-REPORT_FabioSalin...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 22 SEPTEMBER 2016: Folders and files of investigations related to illegal landing of migrant boats in Sicily from 2011 to 2016 are stored here in the office of the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) in the Court House of Siracusa, Italy, on September 22nd 2016.<br />
<br />
The Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C.) assigned policeman Angelo Milazzo the identification of 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20160922_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SIRACUSA, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016:  Angelo Milazzo (57), a local policeman in Siracusa formerly working in the Interagency Task Force for Combating Illegal Migration (or G.I.C.I.C., by its Italian acronym) who was assigned to identify the 24 victims of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, poses for a portrait in Siracusa, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Milazzo asked the public prosecutor for permission to open a Facebook profile under the name “SIRIA-GICIC.”  Relying on the descriptions of the bodies contained in the forensic reports, the photos taken on board the rescue ships and during the examinations, and on the collection of personal items that were found along with the corpses, he would work backwards from these slivers to try to arrive at the living people who once animated the now anonymous cadavers. Facebook, he hoped, would help him get the information he needed from the families of the missing to identify the bodies and allow him to inform their relatives of the death.<br />
<br />
The SIRIA-GICIC profile page on Facebook was created on October 10th, 2014, nearly two months after the shipwreck. At the time, 18 of the 24 bodies were still unidentified. Within a few months, Angelo Milazzo was able to identify all 24 bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migran
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The  gravestone of Musaab Shabani (Victim #9), a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after being replaced by a new gravestone bearing the victim's name in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after replaceing the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9", in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after replaceing the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9", in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after replaceing the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9", in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after replaceing the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9", in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after replaceing the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9", in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
  • SORTINO, ITALY - 9 NOVEMBER 2016: The new gravestone of Musaab Shabani, a victim of the August 24th 2014 shipwreck, is seen here in the cemetery of Sortino after replaceing the anonymous gravestone marked with the number "9", in Sortino, Italy, on November 9th 2016.<br />
<br />
Musaab Shabani was buried in the cemetery of Sortino, marked by a gravestone with the number nine because at the time he hadn't been identified yet. He was later identified by his brother Abd thanks to the efforts of policeman Angelo Milazzo. Since then, Abd has arranged to have a gravestone made bearing his brother’s name and date and place of birth as well as a religious inscription in Arabic, bringing a final bit of closure to this tragic chapter. <br />
<br />
On August 24th 2014, a boat carrying more than 400 migrants, departed from the coasts of Libya in the attempt to reach Italy, capsized in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescuers of the Italian Navy saved 352 people, and recovered 24 lifeless bodies.<br />
<br />
Following the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, including Gaddafi’s death and Libya’s plunge towards chaos, clandestine crossings skyrocketed, as did the number of people drowning. In 2014 over 170,000 arrived in Italy and since then more than 10,000 perished in the Mediterranean sea.<br />
<br />
Only a fraction of these bodies have ever been recovered, and, of the ones that have, the majority remain unidentified. In Sicily alone there are more than 1,500 graves of anonymous refugees and migrants–people from Syria and other war torn countries–who have drowned in shipwrecks at sea.<br />
<br />
Despite the decades long persistence of the problem, Italy has yet to develop a comprehensive approach to handling the bodies of shipwreck victims. Many pieces of a functional body identification system are in place, but its overall effectiveness is crippled by a lack of coordination between the various local agencies involved and national authorities.
    CIPG_20161109_WIRED_BodyIdentificati...jpg
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