Refugees in Sinking – An NBA Star Saves Drowning Women – Politics Abroad

Spanish basketball player Marc Gasol (33) has signed a contract with the American professional NBA league for the Memphis Grizzlies, earning nearly 20 million euros a year. In his free time, he works as a refugee in the Mediterranean!

The images of the last mission went around the world: Tuesday, the Spanish aid organization "Proactiva Open Arms" fired an exhausted woman aboard a rescue ship.

The serious accusation against the Libyan coast guard: Was the Cameroonian beaten during a rescue operation and let die in the sea?

Monstrous mistrust is raised by private sailors, with whom Gasol helps. The volunteers discovered the woman about 80 nautical miles (148 kilometers) northeast of Tripoli next to two bodies and a broken canoe in the sea, leaving only the wooden floor.

Pais ":" At first we thought no one was alive anymore. But when we got closer, we saw a woman. She hung her hand on a piece of wood that was only half a meter long. "

Thanks to the intervention of an Italian doctor, the survivor, despite severe hypothermia, is now out of danger

The organization badumes that the Coast Guard has left the women behind because they're not in Libya I wanted to board the ship. The captain of the German rescue ship "Lifeline", Claus-Peter Reisch, described the incident as "murder". The boat had been cut, he said in "Deutschlandfunk"

The allegations are explosive in the context that the EU wanted to improve the country's coastguard still torn apart by civil war mbadively with new equipment. Behind, it is the ambitious goal of Italy to bring refugees back to Libya as soon as they are saved.

The photos of the rescue operation went around the world because the horror and despair were reflected in the woman's eyes. For the completely naked child of about five years and a second woman (both unidentified), all help arrived too late

Private rescuers listen to the radio [19659017] Rescuers drove the area after hearing that they had heard radio communications between a Libyan Coast Guard ship and a freighter on a ship in distress. Thus, the freighter remained on the spot until the Coast Guard announced it was on the way.

This representation rejected the Coast Guard. She had been active in two rescue operations Monday night. However, this would have been the case for other refugee boats.

An N-TV reporter aboard a Coast Guard ship confirmed a dramatic rescue Monday afternoon, protecting Libyan officials. As controversial as the coastguards are, the crew has tried everything to save people. "In part, the children were revived with resuscitation word-of-mouth."

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"Two days and two nights at sea"

New food raises suspicions against the guard coastal, through the tales the woman. Her name is Josefa, she is 40 years old and states that she was beaten by her husband because she can not have children. This information comes from an article that the charity distributed on Tuesday via its Twitter channel.

The aides quote Josefa with the words: "We were at sea for two days and two nights". The Libyan police came and beat them. "She could not or did not want to talk about details at first.

" Italy is not a safe haven "

Proactiva wants to take the woman to Spain." L & # 39; Italy is not a refuge, "said a spokesman.The context is the hostile attitude of Interior Minister Matto Salvini (Lega) towards migrants and private sailors , against which he acts legally.

Proactiva Open Arms accuses the government in Rome of hostility.Although Italy has badigned a port to the NGO to disembark – but only agreed to s & # 39; 39, occupying survivors, not bodies.

Salvini commented on the decision to make a detour to Spain on Twitter with the mocking question of whether rescuers hiding something. [19659003]

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