{UAH} In Lampedusa, the Drama continues – unnoticed by the world
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In Lampedusa, the Drama continues – unnoticed by the world
Thursday a week ago, to 15.57 in the afternoon. 54 people cower crowded on a boat that drives in front of Libya's coast, with no protection from the broiling sun, without food, without water. The emergency call reached the Hotline, a private search and rescue organization. Two and a half hours later, the message from aboard the sailing ship "Alex", a boat of the Italian aid organisation Mediterranea comes, via Twitter: "Happy to have 54 life from the hell of Libya brought. Now we need a safe Harbor."
"Alex," take a course on Lampedusa. A little later the blue 18-meters-Yacht still in sweltering heat in international waters off the Mediterranean island, precisely at the twelve-mile zone, just before the entrance in the Italian territory. It Minister Matteo Salvini is inside himself, denied the boat with the refugees on Board the driveway by decree and via Twitter. "We will take all measures to prevent that Italy is smugglers a port for the arrival of People."
Well two weeks have now passed since captain Carola Missiles over the prohibition years continued, with the German rescue vessel "Sea Watch 3" in the port of Lampedusa to enter, and the 31-Year-old to an international icon. But in the shadow of these headlines, the everyday Drama of the Italian deterrence policy to run its course. Especially in Lampedusa.
"Europe has the borders to Libya
" moved", It's crazier than ever," says Alberto Mayart, 32, head of the aid organisation "Mediterranean Hope" in Lampedusa. Founded by the Evangelical Church, after off the coast of Lampedusa in October 2013, a wooden boat with 368 refugees on Board had caught fire and all the passengers drowned, in sight of the shore. "The use of the boats of aid organisations is increasingly difficult," says Mr. Mayart. "It is so, as all say: Europe has moved the borders to Libya."
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The small man with the black tunnel ring in the left ear has just received a Mail from an Italian journalist on Board the "Alex". Reports of precarious conditions. Two of the four women are pregnant, four small children among the passengers. But the Reporter also writes: "Better ten years on this ship than a second in Libya."
Those people escape from the Camps of the North African state manages, and the look in Mallardos advice in the help center, reports of extortion, forced labour and rape. They wanted to get out, no matter what the cost it. And if it is the life.
a Small fishing – and boats are the only Option these refugees. And for those that do make it up there, it will always be risky, because rare rescue in the vicinity. Commercial shipping is now a wide arc around the area, Libya. "No one knows how many people drown out there," says Mr. Mayart.
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again and again. And there are always new boats coming to
©Milestone Media Imago Image of The invisible misery
buried in the vicinity of the airport of Lampedusa, not far from the picture-book beach of Cala Pisana, are nearly two dozen refugees. Only three of the names were known. The other artists of the village of mussels and fish painted on the simple crosses, nailed from planks of refugee boats together. The part of a bug next to it stands as a memorial. On a shield below it to read: "In this place, Muslims and Catholics are buried, Old and Young, Black and White. They were looking for freedom to the death in the sea."
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In those days, as a captain Missiles in vain asked for permission to enter the port, had Alberto Mayart slept with 40 friends from the Forum of Lampedusa Solidale ten nights in front of the Portal of the Church of San Gerlando. Also the parish priest Don Carmelo La Magra, a hulking man with a red Viking beard, stayed with them in the open. It was not only about the name of the "Sea-Watch 3" welcome. "We wanted to make the whole of the tragedy visible," says Mayart. "Many ships are invisible out there. No man here see the misery."
While the "Alex" crosses still in international waters outside the port of Lampedusa, is now sitting in front of Don Carmelos Church, an African refugee family. The father is chatting on the phone with the home. Don Carmelo has furnished the refugees with free Internet. In the Church you may use the clean toilet. Five Tunisians to come in. Your boat has only made yesterday, directly on the beach of the hotel Baia Turchese, where tourists crowded burn in the sun. Maybe some know of them in the boat, not the fishermen with their catch home. The Tunisians had huddled under the Deck, until the shore was reached.
"Dear Mr. Minister, but, you know, actually, that with us every day, refugees arrive in Lampedusa? Is your Ministry about?", the local journalist Micaela Martina, 44, had on Facebook posted in anger about the Theater, the Salvini performed because of the "Sea-Watch 3". "It is no secret what is going on here, but Salvini makes nothing against it. It is easier to rail against foreign organizations," she says.
"Undocumented immigration is a much bigger Problem,"
Alone in the time when the "Sea-Watch 3" waited for the entrance to the port, landed 13 boats with a total of 273 people of the 6000 inhabitants of the island of Lampedusa. "Ghost arrivals" is called here and in Sicily, where the Numbers are even higher. Now in the summer when the storms are raging, most of the boats from Libya. In the Winter, the barges, put in only 130 km from Lampedusa to distant Tunisia. The passengers come from many Parts of Africa, from Pakistan, from Bangladesh, Afghanistan or Iraq.
"Salvini makes a great theatre to the 'Sea-Watch 3' to incite hatred and to win votes, instead of fighting the real Problem of illegal immigration," says Leonardo Marino, 32, of the lawyer, the Carola Missiles from house arrest has studied: "Undocumented immigration is a much bigger Problem. For the state, because he does not know who is coming. And for the refugees as Illegal completely without rights." Of the Meeting of the EU Ministers on the subject of illegal migrationtion appeared, but only to a single. At constructive solutions, he seems not interested. It is not of interest to even those refugees, such as the five Tunisians, who, to escape misery and poverty, but other reasons for their happiness in Europe are looking for.
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Five friends from Tunisia. You are not a victim of Hardship and misery, but also you are trying to reach Lampedusa to Europe
©Joachim Rienhardt Through holes in the fence and disappeared
Four of the five sitting in front of Don Carmelos Church, were already several times here. The journey is to create in ten to sixteen hours. Again and again they were after, somewhere in Europe, and reported seized, again and again they came back. For the oldest among them, he is called Tom, 39, was the fifth trip to Lampedusa. He speaks good Italian, would like to to Bologna, where he had a Job as a bartender. Mohammad, 29, a car mechanic, is for the second Time on the way to Paris to join his brother. Sefed, 25, wants to return to Rome, Achraf, 29, for the fourth Time to Barcelona. For Anis, 22, was a first. He wants to Leipzig. That's where his brother lives.
Officially you are not allowed to leave your accommodation in one of the three grey huts in the valley of Imbriacola, two kilometers from the main town of the island,. The Traumatized refugees coming from Libya, adhere to such instructions. The Tunisians walls but resolution easily through the holes in the fence of the so-called Hotspots for refugees.
According to the mayor of this Hotspot is designed for 95 people. Currently, more than twice as many should be there. The barracks are being renovated, because of the refugees they had put a Protest in a fire. The traces of the flames are still to be seen. No one outside knows exactly what is going on Inside. It is also unclear whether the Incoming will be taken to the registration of the fingerprints, such as the demands of the EU. No later than three days after the arrival of the Tunisians from the coast should be brought to the guard anyway to Sicily. If they are sent directly back to their home country or simply to the air, "is a matter of luck, in which the reception centres they land," says Paola Pizzicori, an activist of the local forum of solidarity. For the authorities it is easier to run, than to deal with the tough return transport.
Absurd dispute between Malta and Italy
The fear seems to be at the five men in front of Don Carmelos Church is not too large. They are the best things. At home, have you already exchanged plenty of Dinar in Euro. Now you are going to buy a Sandwich and a beer brand Peroni. Thereafter, the Joint is evaporated with Moroccan hashish. It is already 14 o'clock. The first day of waiting for a possible next trip to the North, they have almost left behind.
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the rescue vessel "Aquarius" is allowed in Malta
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create, So far the refugees on Board the "Alex are" still Far from.
On Twitter, it was announced that the coast guard brought 13 passengers from on – Board pregnant women, children and their families. You land at the military part of the port of Lampedusa, to the Molo Favaloro. Also, Don Carmelo has come to take you to reception. Seized refugee boats are anchored here, the other on a sort of ship graveyard in sight. Almost every week there are more. It stinks of excrement and rotten fish. In some boats you can still see the bag with Couscous, cans of tomatoes, and a broken canister of the Crossing. The wrecks are considered to be evidence for trials against traffickers, which take place but as good as ever and virtually never behind bars.
On Twitter Mediterranea documented the absurd dispute between the governments of Italy and Malta. Malta has offered the inclusion of the refugees "as a gesture of good will" for cooperation within the EU, provided that Italy is decreasing in the return, 55 refugees from Malta. The captain of the "Alex" but refuses persistently to sail to Malta. The risk that, in Crossing one of the refugees, and taking damage, is too large.
Strong contrast
After more than a day is still no solution in sight. Mediterranea beats by Twitter alert: "in view of the unbearable sanitary Situation on Board: 'Alex' controls in the direction of the port of Lampedusa, the only safe and accessible port." And a good quarter of an hour later, it's Saturday, half past four o'clock in the afternoon, the message: "The ship is approaching the island of Lampedusa."
Two dozen police officers from the national police to adopt a position on the quay. On the beach in front of children by a huge pink plastic Flamingo slip into the water. A fisherman holds his fishing pole in the harbour basin. A party boat full of tourists departs. You will return from a one-day "pirate's journey". The music from the party boat filled the entire port.
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washed-up refugee ships in the vicinity of the port
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The noise is hardly died away, when the "Alex" enters, escorted by a boat of the coast guard and the Navy. The refugees sit almost motionless on the Deck. They are wearing red vests, long pants and long-sleeved shirts, some hats, too. Only a waving timidly. No one shows emotion in the face, not a trace of relief. You don't seem to trust the peace, although Mediterranea tweets already: "When it comes to human life, does not apply to the limit of territorial waters."
Salvini remains hard
Italy's interior Minister Salvini remains unimpressed. He insists on his decree, which prohibits the entrance in Italian ports with refugees on Board. In the Case of "Sea-Watch 3" had been set by the decision of the judge in Agrigento, this decree to be in force. The Actions of the captain had been directed by the higher duty to bring people to a safe port. However, the fundamental right to security does not mean this decision. The humanitarian issue has become a political and a legal.
Salvini writes that he will not allow "those that don't care about Italian laws and smugglers help" , of Board. Mediterranea refers to the Tweet of a well-known Italian journalists: "Let me with the utmost respect find that it is absurd for the disembarkation of the 45 passengers of an 18-meters-to prevent the boat. You lose your mind."
in the Meantime, it became dark in the port of Lampedusa. The "Alex" has already been in the military part of the harbour dragged, access forbidden. The refugees sitting next to Bord, and Salvini images via Twitter: "Italy maintains a serious, rigorous and constant attitude and is waiting for Europe to Wake up." Shortly after midnight, then the news that the 41 refugees have left the "Alex" in the Dark of the night.
a Little later the tunes reports the guard of the coast, that the bodies were recovered from 4 of 86 on Wednesday in an inflatable boat capsized refugees. The "Sea-Watch 3" is more blocked in the Sicilian port of Licata. There, the engines, the generators humming. Eleven-man crew are on Board. They are busy, the stock to replenish. The Crew should to be increased. You want to be ready for the next Mission.
And unnoticed by a Public in a fishing boat at lands on Sunday with ten refugees on Lampedusa. On Monday a further 19 people on Board. Ghost arrivals.
Joachim Rienhardt reported for the last two decades the refugee dramas, wrote, inter alia, via the Balkan route, and smugglers on the Turkish-Syrian border. In Lampedusa, he had to notice again how far the policy is far from a decent solution.
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