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Spain: Aid group files 'negligence' complaint against ship captain after migrant boat capsizes
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22.07.2018
Volunteers and members of the group Proactiva Open Arms spoke at a press conference, in Mallorca, on Saturday, after a capsized migrant boat was brought to the island just south of the Spanish mainland.
Following the capsizing, The team from Proactiva Open Arms recovered the bodies of a Cameroonian woman along with the bodies of a toddler and another woman. The Open Arms team included Spanish NBA player Marc Gasol who was acting as a volunteer.
During the press conference, Gasol called on people's sense of humanity when observing migrant boats arriving in Europe's waters. He said, "I need someone to answer me, as a citizen, as a person, as a human being, I'd like to know how someone is capable of doing this? Because this is not normal."
The director of Proactiva Open Arms, Oscar Camps, explained the group's decision to file a complaint against the camptain of 'Triades', a cargo ship that failed to come to the aid of migrants adrift in the sea.
Camps explained, "We arrived here and the first thing we did is to denounced the Spanish justice, the captain of the boat 'Triades', for negligence and for reckless homicide." Camps went on to say the group intends to file a similar charge against the captain of the Italian coast guard.
Following the capsizing, The team from Proactiva Open Arms recovered the bodies of a Cameroonian woman along with the bodies of a toddler and another woman. The Open Arms team included Spanish NBA player Marc Gasol who was acting as a volunteer.
During the press conference, Gasol called on people's sense of humanity when observing migrant boats arriving in Europe's waters. He said, "I need someone to answer me, as a citizen, as a person, as a human being, I'd like to know how someone is capable of doing this? Because this is not normal."
The director of Proactiva Open Arms, Oscar Camps, explained the group's decision to file a complaint against the camptain of 'Triades', a cargo ship that failed to come to the aid of migrants adrift in the sea.
Camps explained, "We arrived here and the first thing we did is to denounced the Spanish justice, the captain of the boat 'Triades', for negligence and for reckless homicide." Camps went on to say the group intends to file a similar charge against the captain of the Italian coast guard.
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