Several entities continue to investigate the disappearance of eleven migrants who were traveling in the boat located on October 11, one hundred miles from Mallorca, between Menorca and Sardinia, and in which three other occupants were rescued and have been able to relate what happened. The journey lasted at least 11 days and the intention of the group, all of them young Algerians, was to reach Formentera. However, the vessel ended up deviating several kilometers northeast of its destination under circumstances that have yet to be clarified.
This is what the three survivors – two aged 15 and one aged 21 – have conveyed to the human rights defender and founder of the Caminando Fronteras collective, Helena Maleno, who was in Mallorca when the emergency services reported the discovery of the boat. and is in contact with the victims’ families.
Both Caminando Fronteras and organizations such as the Red Cross are carrying out what is known as the “reconstruction” of the boat. That is, they try to identify their missing occupants to find out what happened to them and, in the best of cases, locate their bodies and try to deliver them to their families. “They have the right to know the truth,” Maleno emphasizes to Europa Press. At the moment they have been able to name the three who saved their lives, since they were undocumented.
“The fact that there are survivors has allowed relatives to have a story of what happened. On many occasions there is not even someone who can tell it,” explains the founder of Caminando Fronteras. For example, he points out, the oldest of those rescued knew one of the missing people and from the hospital he agreed to talk to his family “despite having to relive the trauma.”
The events occurred around 1:00 p.m. on the 11th, when a French-flagged sailboat sailing through the area notified the French rescue service of the rescue of three migrants who were in a boat one hundred miles east of Mallorca. in French waters between Menorca and Sardinia. One of them was in serious condition and the other two were in less serious condition.
The service, in turn, requested the collaboration of Salvamento Marítimo de Balears to evacuate these three people, who had already been taken aboard the private vessel.
The maritime organization’s helicopter immediately moved to the scene and rescued the three young people, the oldest of 21 years old and the two youngest, 15. Already on the ground, two ambulances, one for advanced life support and another for life support. basic, they were waiting for the three occupants. After notifying the hospital, the emergency services transferred the adult in serious condition and the other two in less serious condition.
The three occupants, according to the information provided by the Civil Guard and the Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands, stated that the boat had left Algeria about 20 days ago and that a still undetermined number of people were traveling on it who had lost their identity. life during the journey.
After that, the search for their bodies was activated using a French rescue plane whose work, however, was fruitless. No body was found on board the boat. Rescue reported the event to the Civil Guard, National Police, 112 and 061, which, for its part, activated the Son Espases helisurface to receive the three rescued people.
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