[Man] Quinze Minutes: the editors' reporting magazine
[Woman] After the Lampedusa shipwreck,
we carry on our inquiry into the causes of recent migrants' boats shipwrecks.
Quinze Minutes magazine crossed the Mediterranean
to meet NGOs, academics and families who inquire
into the dramatic circumstances of Europe-bound migration.
"Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean: who is guilty?"
a reportage in Tunis by Alexandre Habay, edited by Sylvain Michel.
[coast guard] Pronto? A che distanza siete da Lampedusa? (Listen, how far are you from Lampedusa)
[shipwrecked man] [unclear - in Arabic?] [coast gard] Dove siete? (Where are you?)
[shipwrecked man] [unclear - in Arabic?] [coast gard] Pronto? (Listen)
[Alexandre Habay (?)] What we heard is a Mayday call made via cell phone
by someone on the boat that got shipwrecked in front of Lampedusa
on September 6, 2012.
It's a Mayday call. It's really, really tragic to hear that.
The caller's hopelessness perfectly comes through
and unfortunately, this call is also rather unclear, actually.
This is certainly one of the reasons why it was difficult for the Italian coast guards
to immediately identify the position of the boat after this call,
and this may have been a cause of the very shipwreck
and of over 70 people's disappearance.