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A few days after the floods which ravaged Libya, residents of the coastal town of Derna protested against the authorities and deplored having seen “only soldiers”. The material damage is immense.
The Libyans experienced the apocalypse, then abandonment, and are now screaming their anger. A week after the floods which devastated their city, the inhabitantss of Derna demands that the Libyan authorities be held accountable. “No one heard the voices of the people, we only saw soldiers. The demands of the population are not heard by our politicians, who are criminals. They want to harm us. This is why we demonstrate“, testifies a man.
Some have lost everything
Before the disaster, 100,000 people lived in Derna, on the shores of the Mediterranean. Few houses survived the flood. Abdel is 73 years old. He returns home for the first time since the disaster. The inventory will be simple: all his memories have disappeared. It was dark that day when a torrent of water rushed in. “It was very sudden. Around 1:30 a.m., I heard people screaming in the street. They were cries of fear and distress. I just had time to grab my glasses and my cell phone“, he recalls.