The new hydrofoil terminal of the port of Messina will be named after Omayma Benghaloum. This was decided yesterday by the Committee of management of the Port System Authority of the Strait approving the proposal of the President Ciccio Rizzo and the Committee Guarantee of the entity. The initiative was created to remember Omayma, victim of femicide at the hands of her husband in September 2015, who in his last hours of life had played the role of cultural mediator for the immigration office of the Police Headquarters, right on the docks of the Peloritan port. With this act the Port Authority thus intends to express its full condemnation of all forms of violence, in general, and against women in recalling this exemplary figure of woman and mother that, with commitment and self-sacrifice and despite the enormous difficulties, had managed to achieve her work to ensure especially to her girls a more serene and rich future opportunities. A woman who with her work as a mediator cultural and performer also represented the perfect ring of the world of migrants and the opportunities that Europe can give them.

The naming will be celebrated in the coming weeks with a public ceremony attended by the family of Omayma, local institutions and city schools. In this On the occasion a plaque will be affixed and will be dedicated to Omayma the "Occupied Place", testifying to how the ports continue to represent, as always, landing places of hope.