What do we know about this photo showing the rescue of a baby in Ceuta?
Question posée par @skeptboarder le 19 mai 2021
A photograph showing a small baby, in pajamas and caps, saved from the waters by a diver of the Spanish civil guard was shared by many Internet users before making the headlines of many Spanish newspapers.The image taken Monday in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the African continent, where thousands of African migrants crossed the Hispan-Moroccan border, was broadcast by the Spanish Civil Guard to show that "civil guards from the special group forUnderwater activities (GEAS) and the reserve and security group (ARS) save the lives of dozens of minors who came to Ceuta by sea with their families ”.It was taken near the beaches of Tarajal, where migrants arrive.
Since the broadcast of this image, the 41 -year -old diver, Juan Francisco Valle Ramírez, nicknamed Juanfran, spoke to many Spanish media. He tells the scene to the Nius Diario information site: "We were in the water, watching those who were likely to drown. We saw a woman with a kind of toy float, now afloat. At first, we thought she was wearing a small backpack, like clothes to change, until we saw a small head. The baby was in the water. We rushed to them. My partner with a life buoy helped the mother and I took the baby. The little creature was so wet, so cold and so pale that, without looking at anything else, I left swimming as quickly as possible, carrying the baby by holding it so that it does not touch the water , to the beach, where the colleagues of the Red Cross took care of it quickly. ” On the Spanish television channel the sexta, he adds that during the rescue, the baby "made no gesture. Honestly, when I caught it, I did not know if it was alive or not ", before indicating about the baby's state of health," I was told that they were going well, too well the baby that the mother ”.
With the newspaper El Diario, the communications manager of the Red Cross in Ceuta, Isabel Brasero confirms the scene: "We saw the comrade of the Civil Guard to save a baby from a certain death" who specifies that a memberRed cross "did not hesitate and obviously rushed to help the baby".The spokesperson describes a "confused situation" at the time of rescue on Tarajal beach, where it was "very complicated to see that there was a mother and a baby".The Red Cross congratulates the gendarme for its responsiveness.
While some Internet users have been able to doubt the authenticity of the image broadcast by the Spanish Civil Guard, believing in an old photo out of its context or a photomontage, these two testimonies are also supported by another snapshot, taken from further awayThe same day by photographer Antonio Sempere.Bottom left of the image, you can see Juan Francisco Valle Ramírez saving a baby using a lifeline, as in the image broadcast by the Spanish police.Questioned by the RTVE television channel, Isabel Brasero, underlines that "there are many babies arriving, many mothers with babies, many families and many isolated minors."
The rescue of another baby by a member of the Red Cross, filmed on the night of Monday to Tuesday still in Ceuta, also moved Spain.On the video, we can see that a mother entrusts her child to a rescuer through the fence of the border.According to the local press, this mother managed to find her daughter.