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There are stories that are not always told, perhaps because of their tragic nature and that reality that hurts the heart. Because it is easier to ignore it and live your daily life by transforming small problems into large cases to solve. Then, however, those same stories forcefully return in the form of news that takes our breath away.
They are those stories that remind us of the possibility of a utopian dream of giving everyone the same opportunities, not granted to some just because they are not lucky enough to be born and live among the many possibilities that are offered to us, every day.
There are stories that then lead to tragedies, and then that is the moment where awareness prevails over that tacit complicity of pretending not to see, and reminds us that we should really do something. And then there are the near-miss tragedies, which do not become tragedies, thanks to the human commitment of some people.
Here, this is our story, that ofyet another tragedy not completed in Ceuta, avoided thanks to the intervention of a civil guard who threw himself into the sea for save a baby just two months old. Hard and raw, but extremely real images, those spread by the official Twitter profile of the Spanish Civil Guard.
There is one photo, among many, that has been around the web and has become the symbol of the chaos and drama of those eight thousand migrants who find themselves among the barriers of the Spanish enclave. There is a man, in wetsuits and gloves – as if he were wearing the shoes of a super hero – who she is holding a baby wearing her striped romper and a celestial bonnet. It’s so small it looks like a doll, but it’s real. IS he’s only two months old.
Let’s look at the photo, it keeps us in suspense. We can breathe a sigh of relief and relax all the muscles in the body only when we learn that the baby is safe. He was rescued by that agent of the Civil Guard Special Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) named Juan Francisco Valle, who told the story thus: «There were three of us in the water, we were helping various people. I saw a woman with a toy life preserver trying to survive. On his shoulder he had a backpack with some clothes, but after one movement I realized that it was a newborn. We headed towards them, my colleague and me. I took the baby and he helped the mother ». Juan Francisco did not immediately understand in what condition the child was: “He was so pale and still that I didn’t know if he was okay or not“.
But in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Morocco, thousands of people are still there that attack the barriers of the Spanish enclave. Among these are teenagers, women and children, even very young ones, desperate for a new beginning. Among them was that child saved by the snapshot agent.
The tragedy didn’t happen because the right people were in the right place at that exact moment. But if there wasn’t tomorrow?
Baby rescued by an agent in Ceuta
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