2024-06-07 23:44:35
(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 07 – The our bodies of 11 migrants have been noticed off the coast of Libya by the Seabird airplane, of Seawatch, and have been then recovered by the Geo Barents ship, of Medical doctors With out Borders, which was within the space after having rescued two boats. The Geo Barents was assigned the port of Gonova, greater than 600 nautical miles from the positioning of the intervention, the place it’s now heading with 165 folks and the eleven corpses on board. As Seawatch defined on social media, “at the moment our Seabird airplane noticed eleven lifeless our bodies off the coast of Libya, we do not know if they’re all a part of the identical phantom shipwreck. That is what occurs within the Mediterranean, even when nobody sees it”. The group then says that it “tried to contact a Libyan patrol boat, in English and Arabic by way of radio, to retrieve them however with no response. For them and for the EU these individuals are value nothing even in dying”. The ship Geo Barents then intervened which, as Juan Matias Gil, head of mission of Medical doctors With out Borders, stated, had intervened in the course of the evening to rescue a fiberglass boat and a rubber dinghy, the primary with 37 folks on board, the second with 109. “We had been assigned the port of Civiavecchia – explains Gil – two hours later they despatched us a communication of the change of port to Genoa, greater than 600 nautical miles, a thousand kilometres, from the rescue station”. “For the reason that Sea Watch airplane had noticed our bodies floating not very removed from our location, the Italian Coast Guard allowed us to go and get well the our bodies.” It took 4 hours to get to the purpose the place they have been, one other 4 or 5 hours to get well the our bodies. “Within the meantime – writes MSF on social media – our staff noticed a ship from the bridge with 20 folks on board, which MSF groups managed to rescue safely”. For Medical doctors With out Borders, we’re thus witnessing “as soon as once more the results of the devastating and bloody European insurance policies concerning migration and lack of help to folks crossing the Mediterranean”. “We all know that individuals will proceed to journey harmful roads in a determined try to achieve security, and Europe should discover protected and authorized routes for them. This disaster – concludes MSF – should finish”. (HANDLE).
2024-06-07 23:44:35