チュニジア：モルグはもういっぱいいっぱい

　チュニジアでは、イタリアを目指して違法移民船で乗り出す人たちが多数発生、とりわけサブサハラ人への差別的言辞が出てからか、ものすごいペースで渡海を試み―ものすごい勢いで沈没溺死。結果、遺体置き場がキャパオーバー。

BBC Tunisia morgue overwhelmed by migrant bodies 30 Mar 2023

「A health official in the Tunisian province of Sfax has warned that the number of bodies of sub-Saharan migrants recovered from shipwrecks in recent days are more than the local medical system can handle.」


「State news agency TAP cited the regional director of health, Hatem Cherif, as saying that the morgue of Habib Bourguiba University Hospital in the provincial capital had received 42 bodies of migrants - noting that the morgue could only handle 35 bodies.」

　42遺体を受け入れた地元モルグ。しかし定員は35名分なんですが―という。これならまだ、詰めるなり、床に置くなりして対応できる数字だが、先週70体ほど受け入れたんですが―という。うん、無理。

「Last week, the morgue had received 70 bodies, Mr Cherif was quoted as saying, warning that with summer approaching, the pace of illegal migration attempts by sea would accelerate and the decomposition of bodies would be faster due to rising temperatures.」

　この季節はまだいいとして、夏に向けて…冷凍冷蔵設備が欲しいなあ…という。なにしろ昨年から今年今まで、800遺体を埋葬してきた。今年はそれ以上、行きますよねえ。

「TAP noted that more than 800 bodies of sub-Saharan Africans - who had died at sea - had been buried in local cemeteries in Sfax throughout 2022 and this year.」

「The incidents came amid a campaign of arrests of sub-Saharan Africans living in the country and an anti-migrant narrative embraced by President Kais Saied in recent weeks.」

　大統領から、サブサハラ人を邪魔にする発言が出てしばらくたった。祖国に帰るより、いっそ運試しをしようじゃないか、という人たちも多数いたのだろうな。