SMUGGLER’S ARREST
It was one of the sunny days when see was calm on the eastern coast near city Molyvos of island Lesbos, Greece. As already whole year refugees fleeing from war, their only way to arrive in safer place in Europe by boat from Turkey is towards those beaches on Greek island. There volunteers from other European countries were helping refugees to arrive safely by rubber or wooden boats on the coast, detained Turkish smuggler, who came as driver of one of the boat full of a refugees. Norwegian volunteer from NGO A Drop in the Ocean spotted him and detained until the arrival of the police. Before that he was trying to escape back to Turkey by stealing the boat. He was also trying to swim back to Turkey. It was very unusual scene and volunteers where very angry on him, because he makes big money from people suffering. On of them shout on him: “ Why are you asking for mercy now? Where have you been, when children wept and bag for a life in the middle of the sea in a sinking boat?”
Words by Matej Povse
