In the ugliest tragedy of illegal immigration, 3 Moroccans and an Egyptian suffocate in a container transported from Serbia to Paraguay

London – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: “Men in the sea” It is the new tragedy of clandestine immigration from the southern Mediterranean to Europe, but this time it ends with the dreamers: corpses but skeletons 3 belonging to Moroccans, Egyptians and 3 other nationalities in a container for international shipments in Paraguay, South America.

If Ghassan Al-Kanafani’s novel “Men in the Sun” took place in a short period of time, it is the crossing of a border point from Iraq to Kuwait, and ended with the literally famous tragedy of suffocation of men in the tank. of the truck, this time the tragedy is double and strange in its actions, and the truck replaced the ship. The tank container and the distance is in thousands of kilometers.

An international freighter left Croatia after arriving from Serbia by river with containers in mid-July, and passed through Egypt, then Spain and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Argentina, specifically Buenos Aires, and from there some of its containers were transported to the Tirpur river port in the city of Vita near the capital of Paraguay, Asuncion. On Friday, when employees tried to open a specific container full of fertilizers to deliver the merchandise to their owners, the fatal surprise was that 7 corpses decomposed, as there was little meat left and it turned into skeletons.

“We found seven skeletons barely covered with decomposing meat. The fertilizers accelerated the decomposition of the corpses,” said coroner Pablo Lamir, who supervised the transfer of the remaining bodies, according to the Paraguayan daily “Ultima Hora” on Saturday. From Europe to southern Latin America, as corpses overlapped, bones broke and painstaking work was required to identify the bones of each of the seven deceased people. The authorities confirm: “There are 7 skeletons, but we only found 4 identity documents, 3 Moroccans and one of an Egyptian.” They do not rule out that the other bodies are Moroccan, Egyptian or North African, such as Tunisia and Algeria.

The only explanation that remains is the belief of the seven young people that the international cargo ship was going to call at a European port and then infiltrate or surrender to the country’s authorities, ensuring that they would not be deported due to the suspension of deportations as a result of the pandemic. global, the Coronavirus, but what happened is that they chose the wrong container, and ended up skeletons. Thousands of kilometers from Europe, in the heart of South America.

“Men in the sea” is the strangest tragedy of the secret migration that began in the Serbian River and ended in the Paraguay River after it crossed the Mediterranean Sea and then the Atlantic Ocean, that is, about 20 thousand km. It was the dream of the young, and they ended up in skeletons.