In recent days, dozens of children have been pulled from the waters of the Mediterranean, as an unprecedented wave of migration, almost 8,000 people entered from Morocco to Ceuta
Juan Francisco, a police officer with the Spanish Guardia Civil, is holding a child, just three months old, almost drowned, completely pale.
The photo posted on Twitter by the Spanish police and making the rounds of the world personifies all the drama that takes place in front of the Spanish enclave Ceuta in North Africa. It shows that there are human dramas behind the cold numbers.
In recent days, dozens of children have been pulled from the waters of the Mediterranean, as an unprecedented wave of migration, almost 8,000 people entered from Morocco to Ceuta.
The new immigration crisis took shape with the frozen face of the baby, which the heroic police officer finally managed to save, as his mother had jumped into the sea with it on her back to reach the mainland, claiming a better world for it.
Of the 8,000 migrants, including many minors who arrived in Ceuta, 4,800 have already been deported to Morocco, according to a spokesman for the Spanish Interior Ministry. “Many returned voluntarily,” he said, noting that the number of new arrivals was now “almost zero.”
The shocking testimony
“We took the baby, it was cold, icy, just as it was rocking.” With these words, Juan Francisco described the rescue of the newborn at sea, on Monday.
In a radio interview, the policeman talked about some of the most dramatic incidents he and his colleagues experienced. “As many children and babies as we saw, we immediately went to get them. “First of all, we had to get them out of the water.”
In fact, as he says, “sometimes we did not know if what we were seeing were backpacks, clothes or babies. It was a traumatic experience. “
