The fishing boat Our Mother Loreto, which has been 10 days locked in front of the coasts of Libya after rescuing 12 migrants, has arrived shortly before noon at the limit of the territorial waters of Malta. 13 miles from the coast, without entering port, a ship of the police has picked up the rescued. “There have been many hugs. We lifted the thumb and brought the hand to the heart in gratitude. Has been to cry”, have been told by the second pattern Vicente Sampere. “Now everything is finished. We are all happy and them, more. We are relieved and with the head held high”. The boat sets sail now to Italy to refuel and buy food and return to fish until the 21st or 22nd of December that he was expected back home.

MORE INFORMATION

History of the family of fishermen that did not know to look the other way “Would to do so,” The fishing vessel with 12 migrants meets eight days on the high seas without the Government to resolve the crisis

The fishing boat headed to the island country after receiving last night a communication from Sea Rescue, telling them that finally they had authorization to disembark the shipwrecked in a harbor of malta. One of the migrants was already in Malta since Friday after being evacuated by helicopter because of health reasons. “Finally we have been given a safe port”, has declared THE COUNTRY the pattern, Pascual Durá, who from the beginning rejected the idea to deliver the castaways to the coast guard libyans. “It is not a safe harbor for them and for us. Malta yes”, he adds. Durá laments that everything has been stretched so much, but is satisfied with the outcome.

Durá had decided last night İnterbahis to go back to Spain and heedless of the instructions of the president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, urged to observe international law and to go to the port more safe and close, in allusion to Libya, a country in which auction and torture of migrants. But finally, when it took “several hours” journey into Spain, came the authorization to go to Malta, about one in the morning. At 10 this morning, Our Mother Loreto was just a one-hour european port.

On his Twitter account the Proactive organization Open Arms, has attributed this decision to the directions of the Executive. “The Government now dictates to Our Mother, Loreto head to Malta. Late, bad and unscrupulous. Playing with the safety of the people, 10 days without news, a temporary hard, a person evacuated in a helicopter and a high risk to the entire crew,” wrote the organization.

In a press note, the Government has ensured that it has carried out negotiations “at any moment” to carry the fishing boat to “a port nearby and safe.” “The european migration policy should be common and we should all comply with international regulations and community”, he adds. The Vice president of the Government has avoided reporting on the terms of the negotiations with Malta and if there is a deal between the european partners of migrants or will all be hosted by Spain.

The family Durá has rescued nearly a hundred immigrants on the high seas in two boats in the past 12 years. In 2006, Joseph, father of the pattern of Our Mother Loreto, went up to Francis and Catherine 51 shipwrecked, among them a pregnant woman and a girl of two years, in the waters of Malta. On that occasion he had to wait a week while a half-dozen countries negotiating the distribution of the immigrants. This time, his son has spent 10 days with them in the boat until finally we have given a solution.

GERELATEERDE ARTIKELENMEER VAN DEZE AUTEUR