- The Weekend Intelligence: They had names
overview
10 years ago a migrant ship sank off the coast of Libya, killing over a thousand people from forty countries. Countless such ships have been lost to the sea over the last decade of the migrant crisis but only one – “Il Barcone”, has been lifted from the seafloor, full of the dead, and given a second life.
On the Weekend Intelligence senior producer Barclay Bram tells the story of the boat, its resurrection, and the ten year long investigation to name the people who died the day “Il Barcone” sank.
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