Órzola hosted on the morning of this Saturday, December 5, a tribute to the eight migrants who died in the boat that sank near the coast on November 24.
Different social and political groups and independent people met at the site together with the rescuers, who were also honored.
The act consisted of a floral offering and the reading of a manifesto in memory of the victims and also in recognition of the people who risked their lives by jumping into the sea to save the shipwrecked.
Manifesto:
"They had brothers, fathers and mothers, they had concerns, dreams, worries, they had aspirations, memories, friends, they had hunger and thirst, they had pain and sadness; better and worse days; heat and cold. They had a face, arms and legs, feet and hands: feet to walk and run, hands to touch, build and hug.
Like you and me; like you and me.
The sea did not kill them, the sea did not swallow them, Europe killed them. That old Europe that plundered and looted savagely those who are now denied entry.
This Europe that continues to provoke a forced migration, to then reject it and criminalize it as illegal immigration.
Europe Kills on the coasts of the Canary Islands, in Ceuta, Andalusia, in Lesbos...
Europe Kills "in cold blood" (as they say in my land) if you don't die trying, it kills you with abandonment and misery when you arrive.
Our sea, our beautiful sea that bathes the coasts of Lanzarote, suffers as an innocent victim the walls and barriers that some human beings have imposed on other human beings; the one that the rich world has
built against the poor world, so that the world of the rich continues to be rich and that of the poor continues to be poor.
To the messengers of hatred and death, it is not enough for them to incite our most miserable and base instincts, they want to tarnish our sea with warships - steel, iron and lead - against those who
risk their lives in the journey of hope; turn our ocean into an immense extermination camp.
Enough is enough! Of so much death. Migrants are our brothers and sisters of this homeland called humanity.
May hatred and intolerance die, may fear, egocentric individualism, selfishness die..., may courage and empathy flourish, as the neighbors of Órzola taught us! They did not hesitate
to jump into the sea to save the lives of the shipwrecked at the cost of their own (from here our admiration and recognition).
Let's give the flowers to the sea, let them cross the seas and let no one prevent their journey."