The hands that saved the swimmers at the Ceuta border: “Taking out a baby and a family is a joy”
The Civil Guard's sea rescue specialists were already overwhelmed in the early hours of Thursday, the day the large influx occurred in the autonomous city.
Alejandro wrapped the baby with curly hair in his jacket, they had just picked up from a flotation device in Ceuta. The child, dressed in children's clothing, was wrapped in plastic wrap, like the one used to wrap sandwiches. “Only his little head was free,” he remembers. “He was affected by the cold, he didn't react and he began to foam at the mouth.”
The mother was a bundle of nerves. The 3-year-old was rescued along with his pregnant mother and his father at 7 in the morning of last Thursday, just a few hours before the massive entry into Ceuta took place.
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