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Our answer to the EU’s 10-points-plan on Facebook:
and now the video is also available on youtube:
Quelle: Rescatan a 123 personas a bordo de cinco pateras en el Estrecho
Salvamento Marítimo y Guardia Civil han rescatado a 123 personas, entre ellas ocho posibles menores de edad
Una de las embarcaciones rescatadas, con 44 hombres y 7 mujeres a bordo (dos embarazadas), los ocupantes aseguran haber pasado tres días en el mar
Salvamento Marítimo y Guardia Civil han rescatado a 123 personas, entre ellas ocho posibles menores de edad, a bordo de cinco pateras que han sido interceptadas en las últimas horas en el Estrecho y en el Mar de Alborán.
Di Daniele Biella, esce il 18 maggio
By Karafillis Giannoulis
3,600 migrants have been rescued in the past two days according to an Italian coast guard official.
Official told Reuters that, a German ship, Italian navy vessels, a merchant ship, Italy’s finance police and Italian coast guard all conducted rescue operations on Thursday. Moreover, a British military vessel supported by a Merlin Mk2 helicopter of 814 Naval Air Squadron, conducted a rescue operation.
Weather conditions in the Mediterranean were perfect and the Italian officials were on high alert acknowledging that many will attempt the crossing from Africa to the EU.
More than 600 migrants were brought ashore at the port of Catania in Sicily, and another 2,500 migrants saved from rickety boats off the coast of Libya, the coast guard said. Catania port officials told Reuters, that the 600 migrants were picked up by the British warship HMS Bulwark and were Somali and Nigerian.
A heavily pregnant Nigerian lady was among the migrants saved. She claimed that she left Nigeria because she feared the Boko Haram attacks. “It’s not safe to go to a public place, like a church, the market. They (Boko Haram) might bomb the place at any time,” she said and added that “the war in Libya is worse,” and that’s why she decided to enter Italy.
According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) at least 1,826 migrants have perished, as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean so far this year. IOM welcomed European Commission’s plan to engage with migrants long before they reach the Mediterranean and to support countries bearing the brunt of those displaced by conflict and human rights abuses.
The International Organisation stressed that Niger, for example, is a key transit point for migrants heading to Europe. The Commission plan is for IOM and UNHCR to create “a pilot multi-purpose centre” in the country. This would provide information on the perils ahead, protection from exploitation and identify those in need of resettlement, temporary protection, family reunification and other options.
Quelle: Agrigento Web
Grosse Rettungsaktionen laufen am heutigen Tag vor der libyschen Küste. Die offiziellen italienischen Stellen sprechen von bislang 1.300 Geretteten. MOAS und andere Schiffe haben offensichtlich auch grosse Rettungsaktionen eingeleitet. Das Alarm-Phone berichtet von vielen Toten, die Information wird derzeit geprüft.
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Deutsche Kriegsschiffe retten hunderte Migranten vor der libyschen Küste. Ein internationales Mandat soll nun militärische Mittel erlauben. Libyens Bürgerkriegsparteien drohen mit Widerstand
Angeblich wird der Plan, an nordafrikanischen Küsten Boote für die Flucht übers Mittelmeer zu zerstören, von allen EU-Mitgliedstaaten unterstützt. Großbritannien schlägt eine Resolution des UN-Sicherheitsrates für militärische Operationen in Hoheitsgewässern Libyens vor, angeblich wollen Russland und China kein Veto einlegen. Schon jetzt werden die nordafrikanischen Küsten mit zivil-militärischer Satellitenaufklärung überwacht. Derweil helfen die Bundespolizei und das BKA, Netzwerke von Fluchthelfern zu ermitteln und Boote aufzuspüren. Hierfür werden Geflüchtete nach ihrer Ankunft in Italien von deutschen Ermittlern verhört.
http://watchthemed.net/index.php/reports/view/120
21.04.2015 / 18:43 / Near Cesme, Turkey
Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigation – 20th of April 2015
Case name: 2015_04_20-AEG9
Situation: Approximately 17 people in distress between the Turkish coast and Chios Island/Gr, all rescued
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Near Cesme, Turkey
09.05.2015 / 18:45 / Central Mediterranean Sea
Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigation – 8th of May 2015
Case name: 2015_05_08-CM17
Situation: Three vessels in distress in the Central Mediterranean
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: On the 8th of May 2015, our shift team was notified about three vessels in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Contact to two of them could be established and later in the evening their rescue was confirmed by the Maltese authorities. For the first time, German military vessels that were sent to the Central Mediterranean region for that purpose, were involved in rescue operations. The vessels ‘Hessen’ and ‘Berlin’ led the rescue of these three vessels.
We from the Alarm Phone support the increased efforts made to rescue and it is clear that the sending out of three German military vessels has been a direct response to the public pressure that has mounted in the German civil society. We seek to maintain this pressure and expect continuous rescue efforts in the future. At the same time, we stand opposed to the idea of destroying ‘smuggling vessels’ which is gaining traction internationally. If enacted, these actions would signify a new dimension of a politics of deterrence where the few remaining means of transport for refugees would be destroyed, so that people become imprisoned along African shores. The only viable alternative is to establish a humanitarian ferry line that safely transfers people out of Libya, as we have called for before (see source 1).
Video: Libya’s Coast Guard Detains 600 Migrants
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s coast guard detained on Wednesday almost 600 illegal African migrants, among them pregnant women and 18 children, who had tried to sail to Europe on a fishing boat, a security official said.
[…]“The coast guard arrested early this morning 585 illegal migrants from different African countries such as Somalia, Eritrea, Ghana and Mali,“ said Mohamed al-Ghwaili, a spokesman for a police department tasked with tackling immigration.He said the Africans had tried to set off to Italy in an old fishing boat in Sabratha, a town west of the capital Tripoli.