Has survived.
The first trip of his life he will not remember, but after four months he has made one of the most dangerous in the world.
On her mother's lap, lined with a pink blanket, crowded together with 26 other travelers, she has managed to cross one of the most deadly roads on the planet in a fishing boat barely five meters long.
The overloaded barge left Tunisia at 7:30 p.m. this Friday according to the migrants and has been located near Lampedusa after 11:00 a.m., a few miles from the island, by the Astral crew has distributed water and It has brought them to safety in less than an hour since it was spotted until a Guardia Di Finanza patrol boat has brought them on board.
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Rescue on the high seas: a boat asks for help from the Astral ship, of the NGO Open Arms, in the Central Mediterranean
This baby was also traveling with her 40-year-old father in a small wooden boat in which there were four other young children and four other women. In total 27 Tunisians who complained about the situation in their country "there is a lot of misery, a lot of unemployment, everyone knows what is happening in Tunisia, that's why looking for an opportunity in Europe", says another man who was traveling to the limit of the Borda, "the baby's father travels the same as everyone else, we take risks because we want to look for work and improve life, if I can I will do it in France because I speak French," he tells us a few meters from the Astral dinghy with Mauro in command and with Maitane and Carlos as lifeguards, who give them some bottles of water.
The four-month-old baby with the pink blanket is already in Lampedusa, in Europe, the continent that continues to exercise with an iron fist some immigration and asylum rules that force this nonsense to risk her life almost as a newborn.
In the absence of true safe and legal entry routes, there will be parents like this baby's, who will do the impossible to give their children a future, come out of the instability of Tunisia as in this case or the most televised in recent days like those in Afghanistan.
The Astral ship in the Central Mediterranean./ Nicolás Castellano
58 people saved in the third rescue in the morning
The third rescue of the Astral morning has resulted in 58 people saved. The operation always begins on the bridge of this old pleasure yacht, Captain Savvas and his assistants monitor the navigation instruments, observe with binoculars, contact Lampedusa Radio to report positions and wait for directions to get down to business. the work with the rescue maneuver. Before at 8:00 am and a few minutes in the morning they had located two other Tunisian fishermen's feluas very similar in size and color, who today have made the trip of "about 15 hours" in good seas, according to them, since they left. yesterday from Tunisia until they were located by the Open Arms troops in waters south of the Italian island, a dozen miles away.
A boat with 15 migrants, including five women and five children. / Nicolás Castellano
The boat with 16 migrant men, including six children. / Nicolás Castellano
Tunisians with more than 7,000 are the first nationality among those who have crossed this route to Italy this year, followed by 4,200 people from Bangladesh or 2,300 from Egypt.
In the first boat of the morning located by the Spanish NGO, 15 people were traveling, including a woman and two children, also all Tunisians.
In the second 16 travelers, including four children, all males and Tunisians except for a Moroccan from Casablanca, who shouted "I love Italy!"
he yelled, happy to know that he was already in Italian waters and with the island of Lampedusa visible on the horizon.
A barge with 539 "one of the largest arrivals to Lampedusa"
In addition, the Astral has rescued this afternoon two more boats with 31 and 14 people respectively, two overcrowded fishing boats that left the Tunisian coast "yesterday afternoon" according to the testimonies of some of those travelers, collected by the SER from a of the auxiliary vessels of the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms.
Three underage adolescents and two women travel in the 31-person boat, while in the second, a fishing boat of about five meters in length, there were several minors.
The boat with 31 migrants rescued by the Astral ship this afternoon./ Nicolás Castellano
The boat with 14 migrants rescued by the Astral ship this afternoon./ Nicolás Castellano
The mayor of the Italian island, Toto Martello, has assured that the arrival by its own means of a fishing boat with 539 people on board, which apparently had departed from Libya, is one of the largest arrivals in a single boat that has lived on the Italian island, which has been receiving migrants for more than 30 years who find their first contact with European land on its shores.
The rescue of 14 migrants by the Astral ship in the Central Mediterranean./ Nicolás Castellano (Cadena SER)
With the amount of rescues that have been registered so far south of Lampedusa, the 700 rescued today and the 38,000 migrants who have crossed this channel of Sicily so far this year, on which is the migratory route. busiest shipping to Europe in this 2021.
"If something goes wrong in navigation, it is a death sentence"
The mission chief of the Astral ship, David Llado, has warned of the conditions in which the rescued migrants were traveling.
In the boat rescued by Astral there were 27 people on board, including five women and five children, including the four-month-old baby.
"The boats are overloaded and they were not wearing life jackets. The worst of all is that the people who carry them are not professional skippers, they are inexperienced people and have been sailing all night," Cadena SER informed, and alert: "If anything goes wrong in navigation, it is a death sentence if no one finds them in a short period of time."
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1,500 people from that country have crossed these waters so far this year.
It is the right to life and prosperity that today has at least one more survivor in this deadly Central Mediterranean than so far this year has claimed the lives of almost 1,300 people according to the IOM.
As long as we keep closing the doors, they will continue to risk, whether you want to understand or accept it or not.