The Spanish basketball player Marc Gasol, NBA champion with the Toronto Raptors and who volunteered on a humanitarian ship of the NGO Open Arms, asked to “act” to help migrants who “go out to sea for an almost suicidal journey.” .
On board the «Astral», where he embarked a year ago for a humanitarian mission, the player explained that he had learned that «human life is fragile, that the waves of the sea are hard as marble, that politicians do not see it nor are they informed of all this, “he said in an interview published Tuesday by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The NGO Doctors Without Borders announced on Tuesday the rescue of 34 people from a possible shipwreck in the Mediterranean, in addition to another 50 migrants saved a few days ago by the “Ocean Viking”, an SOS Méditerranée humanitarian ship.
Among the 34 people on a struggling sailboat were a pregnant woman and a one-year-old baby.
Another humanitarian ship circulating in the Mediterranean, the “Alan Kurdi”, is still waiting near Malta to disembark ten migrants rescued in recent weeks off the coast of Libya.
“I do not point to anyone in particular, I do not think of governments but of people, who are risked when they go out to sea for an almost suicidal trip,” said the former world champion and several times champion of Europe.
According to him, the time has come to “act so that the countries reach an agreement, a common solution. At the moment everyone is as they can and they continue to die “in the Mediterranean, he added. AFP