After months out of service following an armed attack in international waters, SOS Méditerranée’s migrant rescue vessel, the Ocean Viking, has resumed operations in the central Mediterranean. In an interview with RFI, Claire Juchat, the NGO’s operations manager, described returning to sea as a relief but said that tensions with the Libyan coast guard persist.
“It’s a relief because we had to stop operations for three months after the attack of the EU-funded Libyan Coast Guard against the Ocean Viking in August” Claire Juchat said. “People are still leaving Libyan shores because they have no other choice.”
