Emergency, the voices of the people rescued by Life Support: "I wanted to save my son from the Libyan hell"

Emergency, the voices of the people rescued by Life Support: "I wanted to save my son from the Libyan hell"

ROME - "The engine of our boat had broken down, I was in a panic but I would never have returned to Libya, because life is called there every day". And again: "My son's father is still in Libya. We wanted to save the our little one from that hell, but we didn't have enough money to leave all three of us. He sacrificed himself. But now I'm afraid we will never see each other again". These are just some of the items collected on the ship EMERGENCY Life Support, which will disembark tomorrow - Monday 5 June - at approximately 9.50 at the Taliercio quay in the port of Marina di Carrara. Therefore, the 29 people rescued in international waters, in the Libyan search and rescue area, will touch land. Among them, there are 3 women and a 2 year old boy.

The story of an Eritrean woman. “My son's father is now in Libya – says the 22-year-old woman from Eritrea and rescued together with her 2-year-old son – we wanted to save the little one and remove him from that hell that exists in Libya. However, the torturers and traffickers did not allow all three of us to leave unless we had given them a sum that we could not afford. With my son's father then we said to each other that our son has the right to study and not live in a country where people are killed on the street. He, my love, sacrificed himself. Now I'm afraid we'll never see each other again."

An 18-year-old from The Gambia reports. “When we left, we all felt a sense of hope. There were two engines on the boat. We were told that the lights of the oil rigs were Italy and so it seemed to us all a simple and short trip. Instead, a few hours after departure, the first engine broke down, there was only one left and we weren't even halfway through the journey. I was literally in a panic, but for no reason at all would I have gone back, because in Libya you risk dying every day".

The punishment of the Italian government. These people who were rescued by the ship of Emergency they had left Sabratah, in Libya, on the night of 1 June last and were rescued by the Life support on June 2. “Now the Italian government has assigned us a port 662 miles away which will require us to sail around 70 hours from the place of rescue – comments Albert Mayordomo, head of mission of the Life support – is evidently a political choice and it is simply absurd to punish those who save these people along the most dangerous and lethal migratory route in the world: the Central Mediterranean. Here - added the head of mission of Emergency - in 2023 alone, an average of almost 7 people died a day and over 5,000 were taken back to Libyan concentration camps by the so-called Libyan coast guard".



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