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Association for the rescue of fleeing people in the central Mediterranean
Sea-Eye rescues fleeing people from unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean. We look for helpless people in distress at sea, and fight against the daily loss of life there. Our activity is an answer to the failed migration policies of the European Union, which is denying its responsibility for the thousands of deaths in its immediate proximity.
With our rescue missions, we fill a gap in the search and rescue activity on the Mediterranean Sea to save as many people as possible from drowning. Because European states have withdrawn from their responsibility, Sea-Eye pays attention and protects the right to life.
We are a non-profit association, which is religiously and politically independent. Our work is exclusively financed through donations.
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“It is a fundamental commandment of Christian seafaring to save people from distress. In Hamburg and Lubeck, those traditional harbour cities, this is fortunately still a common good. Let us make this the standard again Europe-wide!”
– Bishop Kirsten Fehrs –
“Neighborly love means for us that, no matter where people come from, what ancestry they have, which skin colour they have, which religion they belong to, we welcome them here with open arms and do not leave them to die miserably in the Mediterranean.”
– Revolverheld –
Together against the loss of life at sea
German authorities ask SEA-EYE 4 for help in rescuing 34 people
Once again, Malta abandons refugees in distress at sea to their fate and refuses to provide any assistance to a container ship of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line. Finally, the German rescue coordination center in Bremen intervened and called the SEA-EYE 4 for help.
Libyan Coast Guard threatens rescue ship SEA-EYE 4
A Libyan warship circled the SEA-EYE 4 for 50 minutes, repeating threats several times to make the rescue ship change course. The ship was in international waters the entire time.
Lampedusa as an Island of Peace
In a joint statement, several organisations support the initiative of the mayor of Lampedusa and Linosa to restructure the accommodation and distribution of refugees and to align it with human rights.