Quelle: The Guardian
Ten times as many refugees have arrived in Europe by boat so far this month as in the whole of last January. Patrick Kingsley talks to some of the arrivals on the Greek island of Agathonisi and observes the rescue of a sinking dinghy
“Help,” shouts Ahmed, a Syrian doctor. He stands up in his inflatable dinghy, surrounded by 39 other refugees, and calls out to an approaching rescue boat. “We are sinking.”
A few metres away, bursting from the dark cockpit of the orange rescue launch, captain John Hamilton at first hopes that Ahmed is exaggerating.