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EU accused of ‘institutional racism’ in the way it handles Mediterranean rescues
‘If white Europeans had been on the boat, they probably wouldn’t have had to wait so long,’ NGO says after EU nations ignored the boat's distress call
The remains of an inflatable rubber dinghy that was carrying 15 people, all of whom were rescued today

THE European Union was accused of institutional racism for the way it handles rescues in the Mediterranean today after calls about another refugee boat in distress went unanswered. 

German charity Sea Watch discovered an inflatable boat with 15 people on board adrift in the Mediterranean yesterday from its reconnaissance plane, Moonbird. 

“Our crew accompanied the boat for hours and tried to inform the merchant ship Vos-Aphrodite, only a few miles away, about the acute sea emergency, and to coordinate a rescue,” Sea Watch tweeted yesterday afternoon. 

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