Invasion of Rome with paper boats

ROME (EFE).— The humanitarian group SOS Mediterranée, which rescues migrants within the central Mediterranean, yesterday stuffed a number of fountains and emblematic locations in Rome with paper boats to place the migration difficulty on the middle of the European election marketing campaign.

“Let’s not stand by and watch” reads the motto written on the boats that additionally sailed by means of the waters of the Tiber River in a gesture that goals for his or her calls for to achieve Brussels together with the ten,000 signatures that the activists collected in current months and that they are going to ship to a few of the Italian candidates.

“European politics has forgotten the Mediterranean. Kind of voluntarily, he has left it empty and with out assist for the individuals who cross it,” Francesco Creazzo, spokesperson for the NGO within the Largo di Torre Argentina, an archaeological website within the coronary heart of Rome, defined to EFE the place a dozen of those paper boats.

Brussels Group

Requests that SOS Mediterranee desires to undergo Brussels.

Requests

That the European States “do their responsibility” and develop a rescue mission within the Mediterranean to offer security to the lots of of people that leap into the waters to achieve Europe; withdraw funding from international locations like Libya that “block” migratory routes and finish the “persecution” of organizations that rescue migrants.

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