Migrant rescue captain denounces Greek efforts to stem human tide
The former captain of the "refugee" organisation Mission Lifeline, Claus-Peter Reisch, has sharply criticized the "floating protection systems" planned by Greece against illegal immigrants.
Published: February 3, 2020, 6:51 am
“This is completely crazy,” Reisch told German magazine Focus Online.
The Greek border protection efforts reminded him of the Second World War he said. “So there is a kind of oil or tank barrier against people, that is, a human lock.” That was “sometimes done in Normandy, in the Second World War”. He said wondered how many refugees would die as a result.
The Dresden-based migrant rescue organisation has been operating in the central Mediterranean.
Reisch said the only way out for German federal states like Bavaria was an even distribution of migrants from the Greek islands to the member states of the European Union. “Of course, there should also be a principle of solidarity in this regard and not some countries that think they can get a big check from Brussels and that’s it.”
Reisch rejected the notion that private sea rescue was a pull factor for even more illegal immigration. “This is a purely populist claim that has been refuted by many well-known universities.” Sea rescue should therefore “not be further criminalized”.
In the past, Reisch had repeatedly expressed his leftwing take on politics. Among other things, he had called for an outright ban on the AfD. He also spoke in favor of the re-election of the leftist Bodo Ramelow as the Prime Minister Thuringia.
In 2018, Reisch was a speaker at the demo against the shift to the right. He also called for the resumption of the rescue mission in the Mediterranean. In addition, in his speech to Chancellor Angela Merkel, he asked that a conference with Archbishop Reinhard Marx, Evangelical Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm and four non-governmental organizations be convened to find a solution so that the sea rescuers could operate under the German flag.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising Archbishop Marx donated 50 000 euros to Mission Lifeline after his plea.
Recently, however, he announced that he was no longer setting sail for Mission Lifeline. As a reason, he complained about the “radical” language used by the organisation, for example against Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP). “I distance myself from all the incredible derailments that can be read there at Lifeline, reject any kind of agitation and consider it to be at the most harmful in the debate,” he said at the time, referring to a tweet from Mission Lifeline in which they said Sebastian Kurz was “Baby Hitler”.
Thus, in January 2020, Captain Reisch distanced himself from Mission Lifeline and announced that it would no longer operate while rejecting the “political agitation” of Mission Lifeline, too “leftist radical” for him.
On Wednesday, Greece announced far-reaching measures to protect itself from another influx of migrants. Among other things, there is a tender for the construction of countermeasures to be used in an emergency against illegal migrants heading from Turkey on boats to Greece.
Specifically, it is about the use of “barriers or networks” with a length of three kilometers each. According to the Greek authorities, these should protrude half a meter from the water and be provided with flashing lights.
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