Papierlose Zeitung: «Hery up please ???»: The records of a sea rescue

“On 9th September 2015, a Syrian woman contacts by whatsapp the shift team of Watch the Med Alarmphone, an independant hotline for boat people in distress. She is on a boat close to Lesbos. The engine is broken. The whatsapp conversation published here gives impressive insights into Alarmphone’s valuable work and shows clearly the reprehensibility of the European border policies which bring refugees in such dangerous and all too often deadly situations.”

External Link: Papierlose Zeitung: «Hery up please ???»: The records of a sea rescue

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⚫ #Naufrage en #MéditerranéeOccidentale ! On a appris le 10 août qu’un bateau parti de Bourmedes, en #Algérie, avec 32 personnes à bord, avait fait naufrage. Beaucoup de gens ont perdu leur vie et seules 4 personnes ont survécu.

⚫ Shipwreck in the #WesternMed! We received the information about a #shipwreck on August 10 of a boat which left from Bourmedes, #Algeria, with 32 people - many people died and only 4 survived.

🆘 from 7 people stranded near Nea Vyssa, #Evros!

The people say they can't move & that they have a sick child with them. They want to claim asylum in #Greece and ask for immediate medical help. They fear a #pushback to #Türkiye. We have alerted authorities to the distress case.