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“We saw the red boat arrive, but otherwise you saw buses leaving? Something is happening ? asks this old Toulonnais in a sailor’s cap, who watches, incredulous, behind the gates of the Var naval base bathed in sunlight. This Friday, at 8:50 a.m., after three weeks of wandering in the Mediterranean and around fifty requests to dock refused by Libya, Malta, Greece and Italy, the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking was finally able to find a “safe port” and disembark in the military port of Toulon (Var) the 230 migrants he had rescued at the end of October off the coast of Libya.