When asked whether he assessed the risk of leaving at that time given that it was one month into the repeated US strikes, she answered, “I believe so, and he took that risk.”

When Guardian Media asked her why he took that risk, she responded, “I know about the sea law; I know since I was young. If it’s a boat, whatever, you’re supposed to stop it, see. The law is not to kill people. Wherever you are, you are not to kill people like that. This is the first time in my life, and I am 51 years old; I have never heard about this kind of stuff,” she said.

On having her son labelled a narco-trafficker, she responded, “Where is the proof? If it’s drugs, where is the proof? Where is it? You understand?”