The Coast Guard carried out five times more interceptions at sea in the first quarter of 2023 than last year. More than 200 corpses rest at this time in the morgue of the hospital of Sfax.
A project to build a cemetery dedicated to corpses washed up by the sea is now planned in the region. The economic and political crisis that has shaken their country for months despairs a fringe of the population who sometimes say they prefer death to stay in a country that, according to them, no longer offers any horizon.