Inmates at Milan's largest prison have given new life to the remnants of Europe's deadly migrant crisis.
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00:00 These are battered migrant boats, the wreckage of Europe`s migration crisis.
00:08 But inmates in Milan`s largest prison are giving new life to these boats by using the
00:13 wood to make violins, violas and cellos.
00:16 Metamorphosis is a rehabilitation project for detainees, but also pays tribute to the
00:22 thousands who lose their lives trying to reach Europe.
00:25 "This project was born from a question. The question is, why them and not me? Why were
00:31 those people, those children on that boat and not my son? When I saw those children
00:36 getting off the boat in Lampedusa, I knew that those boats were destroyed by the government
00:41 as special refuges. Then I thought, why can't they become a living memory? And remind everyone
00:48 of this drama that could have been mine or my son, because if we were born there, it
00:52 was us."
00:53 The instruments were used at the debut performance of the iconic "Orchestra of the Seas" in Milan`s
00:59 famed Teatro alla Scala.
01:02 They represent the more than 22,800 migrants who, according to the UN, have lost their
01:08 lives on the deadly Mediterranean migrant route since 2014.
01:13 (whooshing)