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March in Lampedusa in memory of wreck (2)

Attended by Grasso, Fedeli, wreath at sea for 368 victims

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(ANSA) - Lampedusa, October 3 - A march was held on Lampedusa Tuesday in memory of the 368 migrants who died at sea in a shipwreck off the island's coast on October 3, 2013. Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso and Education Minister Valeria Fedeli attended the march together with Lampedusa Mayor Totò Martello. As part of the memorial, a wreath was placed at sea at the site of the shipwreck.
    Grasso, Fedeli and Martello said Italy had made "a huge effort" to make sure that such disasters "did not occur again".
    "Let there never again be such a tragedy as this," said Lower House social affairs committee chair Mario Marazziti, speaking in Rome.
   

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