BANKSY sponsored Louise Michel Rescue boat !
“It might seem incredible there is need for a homemade emergency vehicle in one of Europe’s busiest waterways, but there is.
The migrant crisis means that European states are instructing their Coastguard not to answer distress calls from ‘non-Europeans’ leaving desperate people to drift helplessly at sea.
To make matters worse authorities prevent other boats from providing assistance, arresting crews and impounding boats that do.
The Louise Michel, named after the French feminist anarchist, is a former French Navy boat we’ve customised to perform search and rescue.
She was bought with proceeds from the sale of Banksy artwork – who then decorated her with a fire extinguisher.
The 10-person crew is looking to bring them ashore to the European mainland before they are detained by the Libyan coastguard, which would likely transfer them to detention camps in the war-torn nation, which has been the fate of over 7,600 migrants this year alone, according to the International Organization for Migration.
https://mvlouisemichel.org
