Actor Richard Gere, who has lived in Madrid for a few months with his wife, Alejandra Silva, has been interviewed by the journalist Ana Pastor for the program The goalissued this Sunday in Lasxta.
During the interview, conducted in the port of Badalona, Pastor asks the American interpreter for the Open Arms ship, which Gere knows well for his social work and activism, which in Occión has carried out in the hands of the Spanish NGO.
“This is the first time I see this ship. The first time I came to see the ship, was the load ship they got after this,” he said. And after these words he has highlighted something he wanted to “insist” about Spain.
“I want to insist that this is one of the things that Spain should be very proud. Open Arms has done something very special, which is to save people in the water in the Mediterranean. They have saved tens of thousands of people. I think that with this ship they saved 70,000 people,” he said.
The actor came to travel to Lampedusa to help Open Arms in his mission of rescuing dozens of migrants who sailed aimlessly through the Mediterranean. After rescuing them, Gere was able to speak and has remembered with Ana Pastor how her encounter was.
“I went to person to listen to their stories and most were horrible. The stories of how they had to deal with armed groups. There is not a single government that control them. If they fell into the hands of a militia, the women were raped, the men sold as slaves and, if they left that situation, they fell into another militia They said they were going to kill them (the kidnapped) unless they sent them money.
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