The ship Sea Watch 5, from the German NGO of the same name, rescued around fifty migrants on Wednesday March 6. Among the migrants, a young person died on board the ship.
His life could undoubtedly have been saved if the Italian emergency services had quickly responded to the SOS sent. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the coast guard on the island of Lampedusa finally responded and evacuated four people, Pakistanis and Eritreans, in serious condition. But they refused to transfer the body of the deceased onto their launch, even though the ship has no cold storage and no insulated space.