The trial for the failure to rescue the caique that sank in Cutro on February 26, 2023, opens amid controversy. The unions of the military, which see six of their men and women working for both the Coast Guard and the Financial Police in the dock, did not like the decision of the Calabria Region, which this morning, as announced in recent days, formed a civil party in the opening of the preliminary hearing at the proposal of President Roberto Occhiuto. USIM, the Italian Navy Trade Union, expressed all its disappointment at the establishment of a civil party, calling Occhiuto's gesture a "threat to the guarantee of a fair trial against six servants of the state accused for events that occurred in the line of duty". Considering it "a priority that the ascertainment of responsibility should take place in an impartial manner, especially for such a dramatic event," the military unions write, "we hope that there will be no outside interference in the conduct of the criminal trial. A total of 113 civil party constitutions have been submitted to Preliminary Hearing Judge Elena Marchetto, who will decide at the next hearing on May 26. There are family members of the more than 100 victims and survivors of the massacre, Arci, Codacons, Emergency, SOS Humanity, Sea Watch, Luis Michel, SOS Mediterranee Italia, Mediterranea and the Association for Legal Studies on Immigration (ASGI). Present in the courtroom for the first time are the defendants against whom heavy responsibilities are alleged for the officers and petty officers who that night, despite having received from Frontex a report of a caique sailing toward Calabria on the route taken by migrants coming from Turkey, did not consider intervening despite the severe weather conditions that led six hours later to the caique crashing on the Cutro shoal.