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The navfinanced by street artist Banksy is on the verge of declaring a state of emergency in the middle of the Mediterranean, with European authorities refusing to help them, with 89 refugees rescued on board while the ship is safeguarding a ship. with 130 other refugees, many injured and exhausted, reports The Guardian.
The ship, named “Louise Michel”, in honor of a French feminist, secretly set sail on August 18 from the Spanish port of Burriana, near Valencia, and is now in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, where it rescued 89 people on Thursday , including 14 women and children.
On Friday, crews of European activists responded to an emergency call from Moonbird, a plane that monitors endangered migrant ships in the Mediterranean. Moonbird had discovered a stationary lifeboat that appeared to be sinking.
All 130 people on the ship received life jackets, a crew spokesman said. The ship is currently being guarded by Louise Michel, who already has 89 rescued migrants on board and can take up to 120 more on board.
The inflatable boat is located in the Maltese area of Mediterranean waters, it is crowded, it takes water and has a corpse and many injured on board, after many days in the middle of the waves.
Louise Michel’s crew claim that neither the Maltese nor the Italian authorities acted in any way when they received the signals through which the refugees asked for their help.
“People have been sitting in a combination of seawater and fuel for several days. It is night and the European states are not doing their job. They refuse to take responsibility as we strive to keep these people alive. We need immediate help, ”said Lea Reisner, Louise Michel’s chief operating officer.
“These people are the survivors you turn your back on, the EU. After escaping the horrors and inhumanity, they need security. You have to act now,” said Louise Michel on her Twitter account.
Moonbird’s Neeske Beckmann said: “I was surprised to see the rubber boat, it was incredibly full and people on board were trying to dump the leaking water empty-handed. I knew it was an emergency, so I sent a panic signal to all the authorities and actors in the area. The responsible European authorities did not respond to our signal. The only ones who responded were Louise Michel. “
So far, more than 500 refugees and migrants have died in the Mediterranean, and this is just the number of those discovered, the actual number being, most likely, much higher.
Editor: Adrian Dumitru
