🆘! 47 lives at risk in the Central Med!
Alarm Phone is contact with 47 people in a boat adrift who fled from #Libya. Weather is extremely dangerous and immediate rescue is needed!!
Alarm Phone is contact with 47 people in a boat adrift who fled from #Libya. Weather is extremely dangerous and immediate rescue is needed!!
The merchant vessel BASILIS L is on its way to the boat in distress in order to assist the 47 people. However, we fear that it will return the people to #Libya. They need to be brought to a place of safety, not to the torturous conditions of Libya!
Pullback in the making!!!
The merchant vessel #BasilisL reached the boat but is only monitoring it until the sc Libyan Coastguard arrives to force the people back to #Libya, where they had tried to escape from.
Stop this pullback! They need to be brought to a place of safety!
The merchant vessel #BasilisL reached the boat but is only monitoring it until the sc Libyan Coastguard arrives to force the people back to #Libya, where they had tried to escape from.
Stop this pullback! They need to be brought to a place of safety!
The people on board are in panic. On the phone they are screaming and we have difficulties communicating with them. They need to be rescued without further delay!!!
https://twitter.com/seawatch_intl/status/1634604259885842432?t=sO5SjQQIcbgN1vda_C4aIA&s=19
Still no rescue? We have lost contact to the 47 people over 2h ago & we are very worried! The so-called Libyan coastguard told us that Italian authorities would coordinate the rescue but they aren't giving any info. The people need to be rescued & brought to safety in Europe now!
The people in distress called us again this morning. More than 24 h after our initial alert to authorities, they’re exhausted and still out at sea, fighting the bad wind & weather conditions. We urge authorities to coordinate a rescue asap & bring the people to safety in #Italy!
A second merchant vessel, the ATLANTIC NORTH arrived at the scene of the distress case. We hope that together with the BASILIS L they will manage to take the people on board before the situation worsens any further and disembark them at a place of safety.
No more shipwrecks!
No more shipwrecks!
There are now three merchant vessels at the scene of distress: the KINLING, the ATLANTIC NORTH and the BASILIS L. We don't know whether they are carrying out a rescue operation as we lost contact to the boat. We repeat: don't forcibly return them to #Libya!
⚫ We are in shock. According to different sources, dozens of people from this boat in distress have drowned. We first alerted authorities at 2:28h CET on 11 March, emphasising the urgent distress situation. The Italian authorities knowingly delayed rescue and let them die.
After the shipwreck with many deaths, we worry that survivors - who watched their friends dying before being rescued by a merchant vessel - will be forced to #Libya or #Tunisia where inhumane conditions await. We demand that all survivors are brought to a safe place in Europe!
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