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(en) Monde Libertaire - Ocean Viking Attack (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Date Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:03:40 +0300


During a visit to Tripoli, Libya, on January 28, 2023, far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni signed two cooperation agreements with her Libyan counterpart Abdel Hamid Dbeibah to combat illegal immigration. One of them provides for the delivery of five vessels to the Libyan Coast Guard, regularly accused of mistreating migrants. We can see the result... (Editor's note) ---- The Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat that fired around a hundred bullets at the Ocean Viking with heavy weapons. (Photo Max Cavallari/SOS MEDITERRANEE e) ---- The sound of metal shrapnel a few meters away, windows shattering, hateful words on the VHF radio... So-called Libyan Coast Guard members taking pleasure in terrorizing an entire humanitarian crew-why? Board and take control of the ship and sell it to Tripoli? Make us abandon rescue operations in the future? And thus, be able to intercept more refugee boats and sell their bodies to traffickers who will lock them up in torture centers from which they will only be released if their families pay the demanded ransom? So many possible motivations: financial, political, perhaps with a good dose of drugs, but the truth is, I don't really know why those masked men machine-gunned the Ocean Viking.

The only certainty I have is that the European far right, to achieve its goals, does not hesitate to make a pact with its enemies. Orban and his anti-Semitism hand in hand with Netanyahu. Meloni, who dreams of a Europe without Arabs and gives other Arabs the nautical means for their terrorist attack.

The only other certainty I have is that what European civil society has built so far, by filling the gaps in states' lives and organizing to save lives at sea, demonstrates the infinite adaptability of citizens to assert their humanist ideas. And regardless of the situations and risks that must be taken seriously, collective intelligence will always be a brake on the hatred of some.

Antoine
Member of the Ocean Wiking crew

https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8537
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