PALERMO. “The alarm was raised several hours earlier, but for 10 people it was too late. We are fed up with these deaths announced and which could be prevented ». It is the bitterness and the protest of the Alarm Phone after the news of the discovery of 10 bodies in the bottom of a boat reported yesterday afternoon with a hundred people on board, adrift 30 miles from Libya. The survivors, 99 people, reports Doctors Without Borders, are now on his ship Geo Barents which previously rescued 62 migrants.
Yesterday in the early afternoon Seabird, the Sea Watch aircraft, had reported the sighting of the dinghy with about 100 people on board and a tubular that was deflating, “near the Italian ships AssoVenticinque and Almisan that did not respond to the Mayday Relay launched from our crew ». Dead, also accuses the Spanish NGO «Salvamento maritimo humanitario», «which could be avoided if there was a will, beyond the economic agreements between countries».