Sea-Eye Explained

Sea-Eye is a German non-governmental organization headquartered in Regensburg. It participates in the rescue of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean, in particular by having chartered the ships Sea-Eye and Seefuchs/ Sea Fox until August 2017,[1] [2] then the Alan Kurdi (named in memory of the young Syrian found drowned on a Turkish beach in 2015) and since August 2020 the Sea-Eye 4.[3] [4] In June 2021, Sea-Eye received honorary citizenship from the mayor of Palermo.[5]

Operations

On 3 April 2019, the Alan Kurdi, warned after a call to the emergency number of the (German) Watch the Mediterranean Sea association,[6] rescued 64 migrants (including twelve women and two children aged one and six) off the Libyan coast; Italy and Malta initially refused berthing but after ten days of waiting at sea, the migrants were finally permitted to disembark at the port of Valletta and were divided between Germany, France (twenty of them), Portugal and Luxembourg.[7] [8]

On 5 July 2019, off the coast of Libya, Sea Eye rescued 65 migrants from drowning.[9] On 7 July 2019 65 migrants were disembarked from Alan Kurdi in Naples.[10]

On 4 August 2019 Alan Kurdi disembarked forty migrants in Malta.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sea-Eye rettet keine Flüchtlinge mehr . Sea-Eye no longer rescues refugees . n-tv.de . 2019-07-08. .
  2. Web site: Plusieurs ONG suspendent le sauvetage de migrants en Méditerranée . Several NGOs suspend the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean . Le Monde. 2017-08-13. 2019-07-08.
  3. Web site: SEA-EYE 4 The fourth rescue ship . sea-eye.org' . 24 May 2021.
  4. Web site: December 2020 update - NGO ships involved in search and rescue in the Mediterranean and legal proceedings against them . European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, fra.europa.eu' . 18 May 2021 . 18 December 2020.
  5. News: Orlando conferisce la cittadinanza onoraria di Palermo alla Sea Eye . Orlando confers honorary citizenship of Palermo on Sea Eye . 16 May 2024 . PalermoToday . 4 June 2021 . it.
  6. Web site: WatchTheMed Alarm Phone Reports . www.watchthemed.net . 20 May 2021.
  7. Web site: Les migrants de Sea-Eye arrivent à Malte avant d'être répartis en Europe . Sea-Eye migrants arrive in Malta before being dispatched to Europe . Le Point . 2019-04-13 . 2019-07-08.
  8. Web site: Quatre pays d'Europe acceptent d'accueillir les migrants bloqués depuis dix jours en mer au large de Malte . Four European countries agree to welcome migrants stranded for ten days at sea off Malta . Le Monde . 2019-04-13 . 2019-07-08.
  9. Web site: Face à l'Europe et Matteo Salvini, les ONG de secours en mer continuent leurs actions . Faced with Europe and Matteo Salvini, sea rescue NGOs continue their actions . Le Monde . 2019-07-06 . 2019-07-14 . .
  10. Web site: Malte a recueilli les 65 migrants du navire " Alan Kurdi " . Malta took in the 65 migrants from the ship "Alan Kurdi" . Le Monde . 2019-07-07 . 2019-07-08 . .
  11. Web site: Quarante migrants autorisés à débarquer à Malte après un accord européen . Forty migrants allowed to disembark in Malta after European agreement . Le Monde . 2019-08-04 . 2019-08-04 . .

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