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Would EU coastguards leave white people to battle a storm alone, activists ask
43 people in a wooden boat near Malta battle two-metre high waves as Alarm Phone's mayday calls go answered
WOULD European coastguards refuse to rescue white people stranded at sea during a storm, activists asked today as their mayday calls on behalf of 43 refugees in such a situation went ignored.
The refugee distress hotline organisation Alarm Phone was contacted by around 43 people on board a wooden boat in the Mediterranean on Sunday night.
“[The] authorities are informed,” Alarm Phone tweeted late last night. “Over the next hours, there will be a storm with two-metre high waves – there can be no delay in rescuing them!”
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