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Not without my daughter in Lampedusa

A German woman fleeing a violent husband by boat, with her daughter, aged 9, from Tunisia to the Italian coast

Much to the surprise of the Italian police, a beautiful German woman tall, blond, with a 9 year old girl in her arms, was in one of the 24 barges loaded with 1,700 Desperate Tunisians have landed in the last 48 hours in Lampedusa.

Rothkamm Tina, 40, has come to the island with his daughter, squeezed in among 120 young people in a boat representing for them the hope of new life. But Tina does not like them fleeing poverty and war, but the husband Tunisia, after a painful divorce and a trial. He

journey of 24 hours' shaking from the cold and the fear that the ship did not reach the Italian coast, "but when I finally saw Lampedusa" broke to mourn for the excitement and joy ", he told Tina Rothkamm .

A "market price"

When identifiable, told police he had been the victim of a "love finishing": "I flee from a violent husband always wanted to take off my daughter. But now I'm happy because I am who I'm taking my country. " Tina Rothkamm, a professor at Dusseldorf, flew to the Tunisian island of Djerba to find his daughter, Amira Jasmine, who, she says, her father had taken illegally. Tried to "a thousand times" out of Tunisia by plane, but has always found it impossible because her husband, a doctor, "has important influences." So the idea came to him as an immigrant out more, paying "market price" (1,400 dollars) charged by the mafia for passage to Italy.

Upon arriving in Lampedusa, Tina and her daughter were conducted as two largest immigrant reception center the island, with capacity to accommodate 850 people, but now is crowded and berths have been enabled to accommodate 1,250 refugees. However, Tina Rothkamm, aware of his rights, asked to be allowed free immediately: "In any case, I'm going to a hotel, because I am a German citizen." The commissioner of Lampedusa, Girolamo Di Fazio, made the appropriate inquiries to the German embassy in Rome, checking the veracity of a family history full of resentment and fighting for years.

After establishing contact with its embassy, \u200b\u200bTina Rothkamm spent the night in a hotel with her daughter. As a tourist. And yesterday, relaxed and happy, served in the hotel to the media, accompanied by her daughter, big eyes, lost and sometimes alarmed. "It has been very scared," admitted the mother. GOMEZ ANGEL FUENTES




Rome correspondent.