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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-02-02
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[01] 14,000 discarded refugee lifejackets travelling to Berlin for
art project
[01] 14,000 discarded refugee lifejackets travelling to Berlin for
art project
About 14,000 lifejackets used and discarded by refugees and migrants
after their arrival on the coast of Lesvos are travelling to Berlin
on Tuesday so that they can be used by Chinese artist and activist Ai
Weiwei for a new art project.
The decision to give away the used lifejackets - bought by refugees in
Turkey and most of them flimsy – was taken by the island's mayor, Spyros
Galinos, who told ANA-MPA that the aim is to create a work that "will
affect and mobilize the entire international community regarding the crime
that takes place every day in the Aegean by unscrupulous traffickers".
He also said the island will have the "distinctive honour" of having
a monument created by Weiwei in Lesvos, which will be dedicated to the
refugees making the perilous journey towards Europe.
Municipal authorities have gathered hundreds of thousands of lifejackets
during the past year from various landing areas around Lesvos.
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