The photo is terrible and leaves you speechless. Hélène Sy, however, found the words to describe the unbearable story of an African family, whose mother and daughter were found dead of thirst. She shared her anger on Instagram.
“The lack of humanity is the reason why this world is so bad. Unsustainable”, writes Hélène Sy on her Instagram account. The wife of Omar Sy relays the interview carried out by the media Brut of the father of the family who lost wife and child, died of thirst in the desert between Tunisia and Libya. Images that have gone around the world and in the face of which the wife of the French star could not remain silent.
Hélène Sy is revolted by the fate of this family, the man questioned is Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin, a Cameroonian migrant in Libya, nicknamed Pato. He had tried to reach Tunisia to educate his daughter. The photo of the deceased woman and 6-year-old child was taken by Libyan journalist Ahmad Khalifa, according to the NGO Refugees in Lybia, reports the Huffington Post. Pato is not one of the hundreds of Africans present in Tunisia, driven out of the port city Sfax after a brawl which caused the death of a Tunisian on July 3, specifies TV5Monde which paints its precise portrait, the family was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. But his fate recalls the violence of what so many migrants suffer in the indifference of the political authorities.
With her 122,000 followers, Hélène Sy knows that her word is heard by many Internet users on social networks. She had thus expressed her anger for the case of Nahel, a 17-year-old young man who was shot by a police officer…
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