I Met Defend Europe To Try And Work Out What The Hell They're Doing

Simon Wald is on a mission to ‘Defend Europe’.
The tall, fair-haired, multi-lingual, 30-year-old German makes an almost comical sight in the baking Sicilian sun as he takes photos of a docked ship whilst trying trying to avoid the suspicious stares of its crew.
“The first step on this mission is to achieve a complete documentation and observation of the doings of those NGOs,” he tells me.“Those NGOs” are charities such as SOS Méditerranée&nb