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The Charter of Lampedusa – From 31st January to 2nd February 2014
Lampedusa island– Mediterranean meeting
On the 3rd October 2013, a few miles from the island of Lampedusa, 368 women, men and children lost their lives in their attempt to reach Europe.
A few days later and in the same waters, the sea swallowed hundreds of people coming from Syria.
These are just some of the thousands of victims of Europe’s frontiers: about twenty thousand in the last twenty-five years.
However, despite the crisis, the European Union has not stopped investing billions of euros in the militarization of its borders: in Lampedusa as in Melilla, through the Evros wall or the Frontex patrols, to the heart of the Lybian desert, where the Union has outsourced its control mechanisms.
Yet the frontiers of Europe do not produce only death.
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