According to data from the International Organization for Migration, more than 20,000 people have perished at sea since 2014. And that is not counting those who have sunk without witnesses. SOS Méditerranée is a European civil association for sea rescue, created in 2015 and made up of mobilized citizens whose objective is to save lives, protect survivors and raise public awareness about the human tragedy at play in the Mediterranean. The cities of Bordeaux, Floirac and Bègles, thus morally associate with the actions of the association.
Last week, the Mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, the Mayor of Floirac, Jean-Jacques Puyobrau as well as the First Deputy to the Mayor of Bègles, Edwige Lucbernet, signed the membership charter for the SOS Méditerranée association in the presence of its president François Thomas. These cities thus join the platform of solidarity communities with SOS Méditerranée, which today brings together nearly sixty French communities. This support is also intended to materialize through a partnership agreement.
About sixty French communities have already joined the platform of solidarity communitiess with SOS Méditerranée
The City of Bordeaux has thus worked with representatives of SOS Méditerranée, to define joint actions in terms of information and awareness-raising on the reality of migratory journeys, in particular in the school environment and in the reception and integration of exiled people. The City of Floirac has signed a three-year partnership agreement. As for Bègles, its support for the association will result in a vote in the City Council on May 18 for the City’s membership in the platform of communities in solidarity with SOS Méditerranée. In addition, the exhibition “Lesbos, the shame of Europe” produced by the Béglaise association of the Théâtre Le Levain, will be presented in Bègles during May on the gates of Parc Mussonville. In this Greek island, the Moria camp became in December 2019, the largest refugee camp in Europe. It housed more than 18,000 people in appalling conditions. It was destroyed by fire in September 2020. The twenty photos of the exhibition, from the AFP fund, illustrate the Hungarian edition of the book signed by Jean Ziegler, Vice-president of the advisory committee of the Rights Council of the United Nations Man, co-edited by Le Levain.
For more information on the association, visit the website www.sosmediterranee.fr
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