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After the sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece and the remarks of Marine Le Pen, who pointed to the responsibility of NGOs, Sandrine Rousseau calls for finding “a little bit of humanism”.
“When Marine Le Pen says NGOs are the problem, she accepts that people are dying in the Mediterranean and not being saved”accuses the deputy Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) Sandrine Rousseau, Friday June 16 on franceinfo. “It’s scandalous, the NGOs are there to save lives, to prevent people from drowning“, she asserts.
The day before, the president of the National Rally group in the Assembly attacked these organizations. “All of this [les traversées de la Méditerranée vers l’Europe] is masked, I say masked, by NGOs, who are the accomplices, in reality, of the smugglers”, she launched on franceinfo, after the sinking of a boat of migrants off the coast of Greece.
“The Mediterranean is a cemetery”
Sandrine Rousseau takes it up: “I would like us to find a little bit of humanism in this affair”, she says. The elected Parisian “recalls that last year there were 1,300 deaths in the Mediterranean, 1,300 people”. “Today, the Mediterranean is a cemetery”she points out.
78 bodies were recovered at sea by the Greek Coast Guard on Wednesday. The search for survivors continued this Friday, according to the authorities, without much hope.