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??Alert! #LouiseMichel it helped 130 other people, including many women and children, and no one is helping! We are reaching a state of emergency. We need immediate help, @guardiacostiera AND @MT_armed_forces. We are safeguarding 219 people with a crew of 10. Take Action #ME, now!
– LouiseMichel (@MVLouiseMichel) August 28, 2020
Sea Watch International responded to the distress call in the morning, ready to intervene. “Because Louise Michel cannot maneuver while she is dealing with another desperate rescue, Sea Watch 4 – (which is) still more than 4 hours away – has changed course to help her. The reason? European authorities deny aid once again. The EU should be ashamed! ” The ship bought by Banksy for humanitarian purposes is a former unit of the French Customs Navy that flies the German flag and is 31 meters long. She set sail in recent days from Spain, on Thursday she rescued a boat with 89 migrants off the coast of Libya. But now it has come across another ship with 130 people and taken them too, creating a dangerous overcrowding on board, having almost double the 130 people it can carry. It is alleged that one of the migrants has already died, others suffered burns caused by the fuel, some thirty would be found in a life raft. Life jackets were distributed to all, but Commander Pia Klemp describes the situation as serious and increasingly worrying. Therefore, on the night of Friday to Saturday, she launched an SOS through social networks. “We repeat”, we read in a later post, “the #LouiseMichel is unable to maneuver safely and no one comes to our aid. The rescued people have suffered extreme trauma, it is time for them to be taken to safety ”.
Migrants, Banksy’s ship in action: 89 people have already been saved in the Mediterranean
According to Marine Traffic, a ship monitoring site in the Mediterranean, the ship was about 90 kilometers southeast of the island of Lampedusa at sunrise this morning. On Friday he responded to an SOS from Moonbird, a plane that monitors distressed migrant boats in the area, that it had spotted a rubber boat that was no longer moving and was filling with water due to a leak. The passengers had previously managed to contact the Alarm Phone, a hotline that helps refugees at sea, requesting immediate assistance. Activists from Alarm Phone and Moonbird claim to have passed the request to the European authorities, but – writes the guardian – “neither Malta nor Italy have reacted adequately.”
La Louise Michel is named after a 19th century French anarchist. Also known for her recovery criticism of European immigration policy, Banksy decorated it with the image of a girl wearing a life jacket and holding a heart-shaped lifebelt. The identity of the English artist, famous for her murals and graffiti, has never been revealed, but it is assumed that she was born and raised in Bristol. The purchase of the boat is her latest humanitarian initiative: “I have worked with migrants, but obviously I do not want to keep the money,” she wrote to Pia Klemp in recent days, offering to buy and put her a yacht to help. migrants in the Mediterranean.
Meanwhile, the landings in Lampedusa do not stop, where, during the night, four small boats with a total of 74 Tunisian migrants on board. However, in the late afternoon, the carabinieri blocked two groups of 37 and 13 Tunisians on the island, between Cala Creta and the Madonnina pier. All were transferred to the collapse point of the island where, at this moment, there are 1,050 people with a maximum capacity of 192. However, a small boat of about ten meters was found on the beach of San Leone. in Agrigento, on Viale delle Dune. There is no trace of the migrants, the police continue their searches. 49 migrants landed in Marzamemi and were transferred to a reception facility in the Pantanelli district of Syracuse. The sailboat, with also 8 women and 4 children on board, was identified about 2 miles off the coast of the coastal village of Siracusa and was later authorized to dock at Porto Fossa in Marzamemi. The migrants are in good health. Coronavirus swabs were taken aboard the ship. In Locride, some 60 migrants, including several minors, of Iranian and Syrian nationality, were intercepted at night in front of Roccella Jonica aboard a sailboat and escorted by a Coast Guard patrol boat to the tourist port.
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