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		</div><p>A Banksy-funded refugee rescue boat is stranded in the Mediterranean Sea and emergency calls for immediate help have been ignored, ship leaders have said.</p>
<p>There are more than 200 people on board the Louise Michel and one dead body, according to tweets posted from the vessel’s account.</p>
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<p>The former French navy boat – launched under its new guise last week, featuring a Banksy painting depicting a young girl holding on to a heart-shaped safety float – was off the coast of Malta on Saturday morning.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LouiseMichel?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LouiseMichel</a> is unable to move, she is no longer the master of her manoeuver, due to her overcrowded deck and a liferaft deployed at her side, but above all due to Europe ignoring our emergency calls for immediate assistance. The responsible authorities remain unresponsive.</p>
<p>&mdash; LouiseMichel (@MVLouiseMichel) <a href="https://twitter.com/MVLouiseMichel/status/1299558564533432321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Those associated with the vessel said it cannot safely move because of an overcrowded deck.</p>
<p>One tweet said: “#LouiseMichel is unable to move, she is no longer the master of her manoeuver, due to her overcrowded deck and a liferaft deployed at her side, but above all due to Europe ignoring our emergency calls for immediate assistance. The responsible authorities remain unresponsive.”</p>
<p>Another read: “We repeat, #LouiseMichel is unable to safely move and nobody is coming to our aid. The people rescued have experienced extreme trauma, it’s time for them to be brought to a #PlaceOfSafety. We need immediate assistance.”</p>
<p>A summary of a series of calls for assistance to various authorities was also posted, but they got no answer or were told there was no assistance available, the account said.</p>
<p>The vessel has already carried out a number of rescue missions, according to its Twitter account, and on Friday evening said it had assisted another 130 people, including many women and children.</p>
<p>At that point it said it was “safeguarding 219 people with a crew of 10”. An earlier tweet said there was “already one dead person on the boat”.</p>
<p>The vessel was bought with the proceeds of some of Banksy’s works and is captained by a professional crew with a “flat hierarchy and a vegan diet”.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The crew managed to keep <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LouiseMichel?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LouiseMichel</a> stable for almost 12h now. Our new friends told us they lost 3 friends on their journey already. Including the dead body in our one life raft, that makes 4 lives vanished because of Fortress Europe&#8230; And we are still waiting. <a href="https://t.co/Te2PKCv2Gn">pic.twitter.com/Te2PKCv2Gn</a></p>
<p>&mdash; LouiseMichel (@MVLouiseMichel) <a href="https://twitter.com/MVLouiseMichel/status/1299686347964284928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Guardian reported that the British street artist first made contact with Pia Klemp, an experienced captain of a number NGO boats, in September 2019 asking to help.</p>
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<p>The project aims to help fill a void left by European authorities, who the organisers say are “leaving desperate people to drift helplessly at sea”.</p>
<p>The Louise Michel’s mission statement is “to uphold maritime law and rescue anyone in peril without prejudice”.</p>
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