The NGO SOS Méditerranée filed a complaint against X in the face of the “surge of hatred” and death threats which followed the landing in France in November of around 230 migrants rescued by the Ocean Viking, its ambulance ship.
This complaint, dated January 30, was filed with the public prosecutor’s office in Marseille, the city where the association has its headquarters, she said in a press release on Tuesday, recalling that “saving lives at sea is not a political fight” but “a legal and moral obligation”. “Disparaging and defamatory remarks” made in particular by political figures were also reported to the public prosecutor of Marseille.
outpouring of hate
In October, Italy, where the far-right government of Giorgia Meloni had just come to power, refused the landing of migrants rescued by the Ocean Viking. France had finally given the green light to the landing in Toulon, after 21 days at sea. and hatred by letters, emails and on social networks, ”explain his lawyers.
“These particularly violent remarks have harmed all the employees, at sea and on land, threatened in their physical integrity”, they add, insisting on the “collective trauma” still alive within an association already targeted in the past. .
In 2018, activists from the far-right group Génération Identitaire carried out a “commando” operation at the association’s headquarters. For this action, two of its members were sentenced to prison terms in October.