German politicians experienced first-hand what it’s like to be a refugee
Thousands of people continue to arrive across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. Thousands of people are dying at sea without ever seeing the coveted shores of the European Union. Humanitarian organizations carry out rescue operations to provide assistance to those in distress.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports from Berlin, German captain Ingo Werth, the head of one of the rescue missions, decided to show European politicians what it means to be a refugee in his own skin.
Werth brought the real boat on which more than 120 refugees arrived in Europe from Libya in July, and invited deputies and journalists to take a ride on it along the Spree River.
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In Berlin's elite government quarter, opposite the Bundestag, politicians who agreed to the proposal boarded for a symbolic cruise.
As planned, the politicians felt what people felt when they were floating into the unknown for many hours without water.
The idea was supported by the leader of the Left faction in the Bundestag, Sarah Wagenknecht, who recently sharply criticized the German government. Wagenknecht assures that the government wants to solve the problems of refugees at the expense of the poor sections of German society.
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