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The ship can no longer move safely
© APA (MV LouiseMichel)
In the dispute over how to deal with refugees in the Mediterranean, the mysterious street artist Banksy criticized the EU and reiterated his support for the rescue ship “Louise Michel”. It was recently announced that Banksy was supporting the private rescue ship, which was in distress on Saturday in the Mediterranean with more than 200 people on board.
“It is a French Navy ship that we turned into a lifeboat because EU authorities intentionally ignore emergency calls from ‘non-Europeans’,” read the captions of a one-minute video posted on Instagram on Saturday . has been. “He financed and painted the ship,” the spokeswoman for an organization that has created its own website for the “Louise Michel” confirmed on Friday to the German Press Agency (dpa). The spokeswoman would not say who the owner of the boat is.
Banksy also adopted an ironic tone in the video. “Like most people who have entered the world of art, I bought a yacht to sail the Mediterranean,” read the video captions. It is underlined with photos and video footage showing, among other things, “Louise Michel” and the black migrants in the water. On the pink-painted ship, a Banksy artwork can be seen on the ship’s wall, showing a girl wearing a life jacket and heart-shaped lifebuoy.
Banksy’s identity remains a mystery. It is known that it came from Bristol in the South West of England and arrived in London in the late nineties. She made a name for herself with socially critical and mostly controversial motives, which often come as a surprise.
The video, which was viewed more than 1.3 million times in three hours, ends in the style of the “Black Lives Matter” movement with the inscription: “All Black Lives Matter” (German: All Black Lives Count).
The “Louise Michel” that was sailing under the German flag with numerous immigrants on board could no longer move safely, as the crew tweeted. It was located southeast of Lampedusa on Saturday. A crew of ten took care of 219 people on board at times, 33 of them were still on a life raft. There is already one dead on board, others are injured.
After the crew of the “Louise Michel” called for help on Saturday, the Italian coast guard called in 49 migrants from the rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea. A patrol boat sent from the island of Lampedusa carried 32 women, 13 children and four men, authorities said on Saturday. Therefore, they were considered to be at higher risk. The “Louise Michel” is found in search and rescue waters off Malta. However, at the request of the Maltese authorities, one of their own units was dispatched.
Later, the rescue ship “Sea Watch 4” also welcomed migrants from “Louise Michel”. As Sea Watch tweeted on Saturday night, around 150 people switched to the organization’s ship. There are now about 350 people on “Sea Watch 4”, “who must be brought ashore as quickly as possible in a safe harbor,” the organization wrote.
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