Fights, suicide attempts, physical threats to the crew: the tension is becoming such, on board the Ocean Viking, the ship humanitarian who collected 180 migrants in the Mediterranean has declared Friday in a “state of emergency”, a first.
After the two men who are thrown overboard in a desperate gesture the day before, the day of Friday has begun prior to the distribution of the breakfast by a suicide attempt by hanging, followed by a brawl involving several of the migrants rescued by the ship, SOS Mediterranean during four separate operations, 25 and 30 June.