The arrival of a sailboat, in the dead of night, upset the apparent calm that reigned in the commercial port of Porto-Vecchio.
On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, around midnight, a boat landed in Corse-du-Sud with eleven people on board: a German skipper and ten Syrian refugees including a woman seven months pregnant, reports Corse Matin.
Broken down off Porto-Vecchio after a trip from Turkey, the sailboat was finally "escorted by a customs boat to the commercial port of the city of salt", indicate our colleagues on the spot.
His arrival in the city had been cleverly anticipated by the authorities.
"Everyone is in good health"
"The Samu, the firefighters, the gendarmes, the services of the municipality as well as those of the State were mobilized", tells Corse Matin.
All the passengers, welcomed by the mayor of Porto-Vecchio and the sub-prefect of Sartène, were taken care of by medical staff.
"Everyone is in good health, including the pregnant woman," a police source told the Parisian this morning, adding that the anti-Covid tests of each of them were negative.
Six women, including the future mother, "two young children and two men" make up this family.
The latter "were able to eat and spend the night in a holiday residence in the town", specifies Corse Matin.
At the same time, an investigation must be opened to shed light on the circumstances of their arrival as far as Porto-Vecchio.