(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 13 - The ship ResQ People - of the NGO 'ResQ- People saving people', whose honorary president is the former pm of the Mani Pulite pool Gherardo Colombo - has just rescued about 85 people in the Libyan sar area who they were in a small wooden boat. The crew, ResQ People informs, is at work to assist the shipwrecked on board. "The disappearance of GinoStrada coincides with the first rescue of 85 people today. As ResQ we dedicate these 85 human lives to him, which we will take to a safe place", says Luciano Scalettari, president of ResQ.
"Gino - he continues - was a great figure in the field of humanitarian aid and he changed many things thanks to Emergency and everything he did. He has always firmly maintained that there is no human being preferred to another, and he has shown it with facts. He was a great pacifist, he always cured the wounded and condemned wars. We at ResQ have the honor of having among us his daughter Cecilia Strada, who at this moment cannot be there next to him because she is in the middle to the sea to save people as his father and mother have always done ".
Yesterday the NGO informed that it had witnessed an interception by the Libyan coast guard in the Maltese area of 3 wooden boats with about 40 people on board. (HANDLE).