The Egyptian military frigate "The Nasser" is the third of its kind to land on for a day in the Tunisian port of Zarzis, 70 km from Ras Jdir, a border post where, for 13 days, thousands of workers to leave Libya to safety.
After landing 25 tons of food, the Egyptian sailors of "Nasser" took over 400 of their countrymen, which will require two to three days at sea to return to their homeland. The passengers, waiting for the departure, look bleak for those who do not know what the future holds. "I returned poorer than when I'm gone", says Mohammed al-Abd al-Sayeh Rabou, province of Kana.
The men carrying bundles or canteens, tell their flight from the hostility of the Libyans.In the aftermath of the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, the Egyptians living in Libya have been suspected of being agitators and even echoing the discourse of the "Guide" Muammar Qaddafi, 24 February, "to have distributed drugs to resistant" as reported by Ahmed Hazou, from Al-Mansoura.
The military checkpoints, thirty of the 250 kilometers between the Libyan capital Tripoli, the border crossing, have marked their flight.
Each dam was a pretext for a body search, which it was impossible to escape.Ahmed Hazou had to get rid of its Euro 2000, three telephones and tools for ceramics to avoid being beaten.
Through the words of these men, Libya, and its petrodollars, no longer appears as the El Dorado it has long been the eyes of these young men, driven from their countries by unemployment and population pressure.Neither Mohammed or Ahmed never return, they swear.
Egyptian diplomats present at the port of Zarzis on Saturday, felt that the million and a half Egyptian workers living in Libya, some 500 000 have already fui.12 000 are still capable of crossing the border in coming days if the situation Libya deteriorated.
In addition to 400 evacuees with "The Nasser, 600 others waited to be airlifted to rejoin their families. All Egyptian refugee camp of Shusha, situated at the border will then have left Tunisia.
