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“I was together with the elected officer Qs Maurizio, we were on board the sailboat” when “there was an explosion on board, from which flames arose.” Therefore, the financier Antonio Frisella, remained injured together with elected colleague Qs Maurizio Giunta in the explosion of the migrant ship which took place in the Crotone area, recounts the dramatic moments experienced in an interview with Adnkronos.
“More than flames – he explains – there was an explosion on board. As soon as the explosion happened they threw me back and I threw myself into the sea. We tried to save the people “, in the sea we tried to save someone, our viewpoint was in place, the commander of the viewpoint jumped into the sea”.
But “many migrants, almost all, could not swim. In fact, I even tried to catch him with rescue donuts.” “I was exhausted” and the sea was rough: “There were many waves”, “My first thought was my wife and my 11-month-old daughter,” says Antonio Frisella.
The ship “probably came from Turkey.” On board there was “someone from Sri Lanka, someone from Somalia. They were all quite young and there was only one woman on board.”
Do they call us heroes? “We are human beings, we all are,” he replies. “We were lucky, very lucky,” he adds, stressing, however, that he was not thinking about death: “But I was very afraid.”
“I have never, never found myself in a situation like this. I have done other help, but a situation like this never” says the financier who is still shocked by what happened, and not without emotion, he explains: “They are things that even tests , you don’t realize. “
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Last update: Monday, August 31, 2020, 08:30
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