They’ve been wandering the high seas for a week. The humanitarian ships Océan Viking, Humanity 1 and Géo Barents, which have a total of 985 shipwrecked migrants on board, are looking for a port to disembark.
Usually, the landings were made in Italy, whose ports are closest to the rescue zone off the coast of Libya. But since the coming to power of Giorgia Meloni and the constitution of a far-right government, their requests for disembarkation have been met with inadmissibility.
“The situation on board the Ocean Viking is seriously deteriorating. The weather forecast predicts strong winds, high waves and a drop in temperature by the end of the week. And the supplies are starting to run out,” warns the humanitarian ship of SOS Méditerranée, headquartered in Marseille, in a press release.
Faced with this situation, they ask the other closest safe countries, France, Spain and Greece, to kindly welcome them.
Since 2014 and the start of this migration crisis, at least 20,000 women, children and men have lost their lives in the central Mediterranean, estimates the NGO.