At a little after 8am on Friday, Fadi, a Palestinian, freshly arrived from Amsterdam, joined the throng of aid workers, activists and journalists gathered around a warehouse in Kalamata’s port.
The 29-year-old was on a mission. “I thought I had spotted my little brother Mohammed among pictures of the [shipwreck’s] survivors,” said the Syrian-born chef, who has lived in the Dutch city for the past decade. “I knew he had gone to Libya to board the boat, so, praying to Allah he was still alive, I decided to get on a flight.”
