Médecins Sans Frontières - Audio Testimony - OV - Samson

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF305409

Date taken / Date Recorded 20/02/2020 12:00 AM

Country Mediterranean Sea

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Copyright MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m43s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 124.84 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist "I advise Europe and the European Union to come and rescue the people that is in Libya. Because in Libya, the conditions we see ourselves is not easy. Even when you are trying to enter the water, they will use their boats and block you to take you back. When they take you back, they will not leave you. They will put you in prison… for many months, before they will leave you or they will deport you. And some people fell sick, some people died in the process. So that is why anybody who enter this sea, don’t like to see Libya Coast Guard to come and rescue them. They would rather die in the water than to go back to Libya again.

We are scared in the water, because the water does not have ending. You don’t know where you are going. If Libya condition is good, we all not entering Europe, we will be in Libya working to see if we can make it. When Libya condition is no good, we have to run for our life. Sometimes they fight, they fight in Libya, many times you will be sleeping like this, they will drop bomb fall near your house, you will get out and you don’t know where to run to. Cause there is fight everywhere in Libya. They will use something to block road, there is no motor moving, zero to move. There will be fighting every time, everybody will run to desert and go and hide. No food, nothing, nothing. So can’t continue to be doing facing all those situations in Libya, that’s why we have to risk our lives to go Europe.”

Audio Testimony - OV - Samson - Fleeing from Libya (ENG)

Audio Testimony - OV - Samson - Fleeing from Libya (ENG)