His name is Juan Francisco Valle, he is 41 years old and an agent of the Special Underwater Activities Group of the Guardia Civil the man immortalized with the life jacket and the two-month-old baby in his arms, ended up in the water while his mother tried to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.
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A photo that has become the symbol of the drama of thousands of migrants who are trying to reach Ceuta, already 5,600 have been repatriated to Morocco. Juan Francisco Valle, one of eight members of the Guardia Civil’s special department, told the Spanish newspaper The country: When I pulled the baby out of the water I didn’t know if he was dead or alive. It was cold, it didn’t move he says moved. Diver of the Navy, for twelve years in the Civil Guard, explains that he has never seen a human tide of this type, with hundreds of desperate people. Our job – he adds – consists in recovering the bodies from the water, but this time we had to recover living people, decide which ones most urgently needed our intervention. There were as many parents – he adds – mothers and fathers with their children tied to the body as they could, hooked to the back with cloth and clothes. Exactly like the two-month-old baby, light blue cap and striped romper, that Juan Francisco saved from the water: the little one was entrusted to health care and is fine.
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May 19, 2021 (change May 19, 2021 | 19:58)
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