Migrants, the Alan Kurdi ship with 125 people on board is heading to Marseille. “No indication for more than four days”

After four days in the sea without indications, the Alan Kurdi goes to the port of Marseilles with 125 people on board. The German NGO awaited the assignment of a safe port to disembark after having saved 133 people at sea last Saturday, September 19. On September 22 she had to disembark 8 people to check your medical conditions. The directions for the landing did not come from malt nor ofItaly, so the ship decided to continue to France. “We do not know how the French government will react to our request for assistance,” he said. Gordon isler, founder of Sea-Eye, the German NGO to which Alan Kurdi’s ship refers – But we believe in the support of the French people and that they will not let Alan Kurdi remain stranded off the coast of Marseille ”.

“After 133 lives were saved, there is still no emergency control center that feels responsible for managing or coordinating the rescue,” Isler tweeted. Total rejection of Malta, while the Coordination of the Italian Port Authority contacted the German control center in BremenFrom here the applications were sent to the German Ministry of Transport and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On Tuesday evening, the German NGO informed Italy: Malta, Germany and France of the intentions made and renewed the request for safe harbor. But there was no reply. Thus, Alan Kurdi has decided to set course for his own port of call, Marseille, where the ship was supposed to dock to change crews and prepare for its next mission.

On Tuesday September 22, the Italian coast guard evacuated eight people from Alan Kurdi due to their medical conditions. There are two women, a man and five children, the youngest just five months old. “The common duty to coordinate emergencies at sea cannot end in the silence and inactivity of the authorities, it must be applied until completion of the operation with the transfer of the rescued people to a safe harbor – stressed Jan Ribbeck, Alan Kurdi’s operations commander and Sea-Eye board member, critical of the actions of the Italian and German authorities – Now due to this inactivity, we are forced to head to our port of call for refueling and thefastest and safest evacuation possible of rescued people. To avoid a long and stressful journey, in the next few hours we will have to request it immediate disembarkation of all the people rescued ”, concludes Ribbek.