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WEDNESDAY • 9 SEPTEMBER 2020 • ISSUE 704 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
Bernard Grech's
baggage: bruised
or knocked out?
ANALYSIS
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PAGES 6 & 7
'Tell my family I'm alive' – Etienne
migrant's message in a bottle
KARL AZZOPARDI
CALL my family, please. Tell them I am
still alive.
From aboard the Danish-flagged
tanker Etienne, Gasim came near the
ship's bow, scribbled his message and
placed it inside a plastic water bot-
tle. The drenched paper read: "I'm
Gasim… just to confirm my family and
my friend that I'm still a life."
In it, the Sudanese phone number of
his family home – a message of hope
for his loved ones back home to tell
them the treacherous Mediterranean
had not claimed his life.
Gasim is one of 27 migrants rescued
by the Maersk shipping line over 30
days ago. But a hard line from Europe-
an states is keeping these people out
at sea, denied a chance to
request asylum inside
the EU.
Desperate migrants
want to get off ship
Football is money
laundering paradise
for organised crime
groups
The 27 migrant rescued by the Maersk
Etienne gather at the ship's bow
demanding they be brought to land
(Photo: Karl Azzopardi/MaltaToday)
