Libya Herald | 19.02.2017
By Alessandra Bocchi
Italy is looking more closely at the role of privately-funded rescue operations that have been plucking migrants from the seas off Libya and into the possibility that there may be collusion between smugglers and some of the rescuers.
A Sicilian prosecutor has told the news agency AFP that the cost and sophistication of the rescue operations had attracted attention.
“There is an abnormal proliferation of NGOs [Non-Government Organisations] operating “ said Carmelo Zuccaro, Catania’s prosecutor, “I’m not talking about the big, prestigious organisations, but all the small ones that seem to have sophisticated hardware, such as drones.”