Shipwreck: huge waves, winds capable of tearing sails, thunder and rain blocking the view of even the closest objects. not always. These are images that were not seen by the migrants who were traveling on the fishing trawler that sank 80 kilometers from Pylos in southern Greece. The conditions were not adverse, but the boat was crossing the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea when Frontex spotted it.
I heard the news around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday. We weren’t sure if my cousin was on the boat or not. We spent four hours reading everything on the news, even if it wasn’t much. I had an idea that he was trying to make the trip, but we don’t know when, that decision is always up to the trafficker, and the migrants are basically hostages.”
“I went to Liverpool and from there took the first flight to Greece. I wanted to know if he was dead, alive, if he needed help. I said nothing to his family because I didn’t want to worry them. I didn’t know anything myself except that a ship had sunk.” “.
I didn’t find my cousin, I found his friends. And they told me he passed out five minutes before the boat went down and maybe that’s why he’s not here. They said they tried to wake him up.”
this is the story, Compiled by BBC, by Mohammed, a 23-year-old Syrian refugee who has lived in the UK since 2018 and traveled to Greece when he began to realize that the boat that sank on June 13 could be the one his cousin had boarded, five days earlier, with at least 700 passengers. another person. And it was. Mohamed’s 21-year-old cousin who wanted to be a doctor is missing. he and 500 others, According to the estimates of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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