Naufrages en Méditerranée, à qui la faute? RTS Quinze Minutes 26 octobre 2013

[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] 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.