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Migrants should be unloaded at the port of Valletta in Malta. Doctors Without Borders estimated that there were " four days " of reserves on the ship.
A European agreement was found for the landing in Malta and the care of the 356 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by the "Ocean Viking", the humanitarian ship chartered by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS-Mediterranean, announced Friday the Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, like the French Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner.
" All the migrants on board " the humanitarian ship will be transferred on a Maltese military boat, then brought to shore and divided between France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania, said Mr. Muscat on his Twitter account .
Christophe Castaner announced that 150 migrants will be welcomed in France.
Four days of stocks
There was urgency. " We still have four days of food stocks counting today, " said Friday morning a spokesman for Doctors Without Borders, on board, before the declaration of the Maltese minister.
The boat has been waiting for twelve days in international waters between Malta and Sicily since her last rescue operation, waiting to be allowed to disembark her passengers.
The people, rescued off the Libyan waters, arrived on board severely dehydrated after spending four days at sea aboard a rubber canoe, without water, food and sunlight. Among them are four women and five children from one to six years of age, as well as a hundred minors under the age of eighteen, of whom 80% travel alone.
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Most of these people, two-thirds of whom are from Sudan, have fled Libya to escape a wide range of ill-treatment, arbitrary detention and sometimes torture and have arrived in poor health and sometimes borderline malnutrition. according to the medical team.
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The boat, which left for Marseille on 4 August and is the first mission for SOS Méditerranée, was refused at the last moment on the way to refuel with water and fuel in Maltese waters. had asked.
(with AFP)