Watch The Med Alarmphone | 11.04.2018

On Monday in Zarzis, Tunisia, 100 people demonstrated against the ongoing deaths and disappearances at sea caused by the lethal migration policies of the EU as well as the criminalisation of Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean. Fishermen, human rights defenders and members of civil society, surrounded the port on 5 boats in order to express their anger and to affirm the dignity of all.

Zarzis is a daily witness of the violence of the EU border regime. It hosts the ‚cemetery of the unknown‘ with the bodies of those who are found but never identified on the shores around the town. The fishermen are at the forefront of the migration tragedy. They suffer from the distress of being confronted with the many bodies which get caught in their nets out at sea.