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Announced by the siren of a patrol boat they entered through the hatch of the Puerto Nuevo de Mazara del Vallo the fishing boats Medinea and Antarctica, with on board the 18 fishermen seized in Libya and released last Thursday after 108 days of captivity.
Mazara del Vallo, the arrival of fishing boats with freed fishermen to Libya
The two ships left Benghazi around 1am on Friday and sailed for just under 60 hours. Relatives and authorities await them at the pier.
“We will laugh and joke again. I know them, they are great men,” said Marco Marrone, owner of the Medinea, in the port of Mazara del Vallo. Today is our Christmas, a few days before. I hope that this story is an incentive to unite the Mazara army, which in its history has suffered at least 50 kidnappings; and help the government resolve the issue of Libya’s maritime borders, “he added.
The fishermen of the two boats moored at the dock of Mazara del Vallo, came out to the bridge, saluted. Relatives and other fishermen blow kisses with their hands from the ground. On the dock of the port of Mazara you can see three bunches of balloons that reproduce the colors of the Italian flag.
The 18 covid swabs made with the fishermen returned to Mazara del Vallo were all negative. The sailors got off the boats to carry out the anticovid test at the viewpoint installed by the Usca dell’Asp in Trapani. At the same time as the quick swabs, molecular swabs were also performed, the result of which will be known in six hours.
“They treated us very badly, but I’m happy to be here.” This was stated by Pietro Marrone, commander of the Medinea fishing boat, who, leaving the port of Mazara del Vallo by car, exchanged a few words with journalists. Another member of the crew, a Tunisian, said from the window that “we were barefoot for weeks. We were treated very badly.”
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