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‘Europe wanted to demoralise us, to keep us away, to make sure we wouldn't save any more migrants’
Ben Cowles speaks to FABIAN HEINZ, volunteer activist aboard the migrant rescue boat Europe turned its back on
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“IN THE beginning the biggest problem was the cold because there weren’t enough clothes or enough blankets,” Fabian Heinz says describing the conditions on board an NGO ship that Europe refused to give port for 10 days after it rescued 64 migrants off the Libyan coast on April 3.
“We also didn’t know what they could eat. We tried serving them porridge but some of them had to puke if they ate it. Some didn’t eat at all. We had to learn how to treat them and how to deal with the limited amount of things on board.
“Later on the biggest problem was psychological. They were frustrated and confused and kept asking: ‘What are we waiting for?’, ‘Are we going back to Tripoli?’, ‘Will Europe let us in?’”
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