‘They are our salvation’: the Sicilian town revived by refugees
With an ageing, fast-shrinking population, Sutera saw Italy’s migrant influx as an opportunity
When the phone call came asking the Sicilian townspeople if they had any room in their graveyards, the answer was a reluctant no.
A boat full of migrants had sunk in the Mediterranean. Almost 400 people were dead and they had to be buried somewhere. But the Sicilian town of Sutera, almost entirely populated by older people, had long since filled up its cemeteries.
Yet although there was no room for the dead, there was plenty of room for the living. All but
