According to the UNHCR, 325,000 migrants have arrived in Europe since 2016 after taking the Central Mediterranean sea route that links the Libyan and Tunisian coasts with Italy. Tragically, almost 10, 000 are thought to be missing or dead. Chamseddine Marzoug is a fisherman from southeastern Tunisia. But recently he is more likely to catch dead bodies than fish. These are migrants’ corpses who were sailing for Europe via neighbouring Libya. Piled up by people smugglers into unseaworthy vessels, they often drown at the start of the dangerous voyage. Chamseddine buries the remains of drowned migrants, including children, in his «cemetery of the unknown».
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Fisher of Men
