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Aid has already arrived for the humanitarian ship chartered by British artist Banksy to save shipwrecked migrants in the Mediterranean. An Italian Coast Guard patrol vessel that left the island of Lampedusa carried 49 of the 219 people on board Louise michel, crowding the ship and preventing it from continuing its journey.
Another boat, from the Italian non-governmental organization Mediterranea saving humans, which was preparing to return to rescue in the Mediterranean in the next few days, also sent the ship ionian sea, left the port of Augusta, Sicily, to help the Louise michelReuters says. “Helping these people is a matter of life and death,” he announced, condemning the inertia of coastguard Italian and Maltese to answer calls for help.
HE Louise michel He had asked for immediate help this morning, having a large number of migrants on board rescued at sea, and at least one dead on board, without any port giving them permission to enter.
The ship had picked up 130 migrants adrift in an inflatable boat on Friday, they wrote on the social network. Twitter the organizers of the campaign, in the account @MVLouiseMichel. After a first rescue Thursday, the ship had 219 rescued castaways on board, with just 10 crew members, they said.
“We need immediate help,” said one cheep, urging the European Union and the Italian authorities to act. “There is already a dead man on the boat. The others are burned with fuel, have been at sea for days and are now left alone in an EU search and rescue zone. “They also say they cannot move the ship – apparently they will have trouble maintaining the stability of the ship. boat, from what they say on Twitter.
The ship’s captain is Pia Klemp, a German human rights activist known for having led several other rescue ships, including the Sea-Watch 3.
UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, called in a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration for an “urgent disembarkation” of people picked up at sea by Louise Michehim by two other boats, which in total transport more than 400 migrants.
Many small boats with migrants, mainly Tunisians, docked throughout the summer on the Italian island of Lampedusa, in southern Sicily. HE Sea-Watch 4, a ship of the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières and Sea-Watch, has been in the area since mid-August and has already carried out several rescues. He is one of those who now urgently needs to disembark the people he saved. There are about 200 people on board. The tanker Maersk Etienne It also has 27 people rescued from the sea on board since August 5.
HE guardian says the artist is not on board, adding that the entire operation was set up between London, Berlin and Borriana. Named after Louise Michel, a 19th century French anarchist, the ship, decorated with graffiti The British artist left on August 18 from the Spanish port of Borriana, near Valencia, the newspaper says.
The British newspaper published several photos of the ship, painted pink and white, with graffiti by Banksy, depicting a young woman in a life jacket holding a heart-shaped buoy.
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