By RFIPubliée on 21-06-2019Modified on the 21-06-2019 à 03:03
Shipwrecks or distress calls from makeshift boats continue in the Mediterranean. Wednesday, June 19, at least 22 passengers of a rubber boat left Morocco were missing after capsizing off Morocco, while en route to Spain. And at the same time, migrants fleeing Libya and rescued at sea are still stranded at sea on an NGO ship off the island of Lampedusa.
They were 49 piled aboard a Zodiac left Monday of Nador, in the north of Morocco. After a few hours at sea, the boat capsized, according to survivors' testimonies. Engine and drowned phones, 27 people were rescued Tuesday by the Spanish Navy after being sighted by a ferry. But 22 have disappeared off.
For Helena Malena of the NGO Caminando Fronteras, who had yet reported their departure from Morocco, this tragedy is attributable to the poor coordination between the navies of both shores of the Mediterranean. But also to the transformation of the Spanish public rescue service at sea. " The Spanish authorities are reducing rescue services, " she says. There is no longer the means that existed before to save people in the sea. People in the public service complain that they can not work properly. And this is what we denounce since the last political decisions that turn a public rescue service into a migration control service. "
Off the coast of Italy, at the same time, 43 are still stranded aboard Sea-Watch 3, one of the last humanitarian relief vessels in the Mediterranean. All were rescued while drifting offshore. But, apart from a dozen sick or vulnerable people, the Italian Minister of the Interior has formally banned them from berthing on the island of Lampedusa.
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