“We have a safe harbor!”. We rejoice on the ship of ResQ – People saving people, the non-profit organization that has been sailing the Mediterranean since 7 August to help those who cross the sea in search of a future.
“The Italian authorities – let them know on board – have assigned the ship the port of Augusta to disembark the 166 people rescued. The arrival in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, is scheduled for 21 today, July 17”.
Migrants, ResQ People and Geo Barents with 380 people on board off the coast of Sicily. Cecilia Strada: “We can’t wait any longer”
The Italian boat had been asking for a safe harbor in which to dock on Sunday. On Sunday he had saved 166 people in three different operations. Children under 7, one, very small, just nine months old, dozens of unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, men who tell of suffering and torture. They were on overloaded boats, with life jackets around their necks, before being joined by the NGO boat.
For two days and two nights they sailed around the island. Now finally the assignment of the port.
Migrants, 380 people saved in the Mediterranean. ResQ People: “Immediately a safe harbor”
by Viola Giannoli
The health situation on board is under control, but not the psychological one of the migrants: “We have – explained the volunteers – people exhausted and traumatized by the sea voyage and what they went through before, the desert, arbitrary detention, physical abuse and psychological suffered “.
At sea remains the Geo Barents, the ship of Doctors Without Borders, which returned to sailing last July after a long administrative stop. In various rescue operations he rescued 322 people, now rescued but still at sea.
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