updated informations about the „Salamis-case“:
The tanker arrived yesterday in Syracus/Sicily with all 102 boatpeople, coming mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, and starting now their asylum procedures …
And the Salamis went back to Malta in the meanwhile, obviously without any attempt from authorities to try to criminalize the Captain and the crew for their rescue-operation (and as some of us had feared before because of earlier experiences).
All’s well that ends well?
Joseph Muscat comes out politically stronger thanks to the Italian intervention to disembark 102 migrants in Syracuse. But had it not been for Italy he would have had egg on his face.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/blogsdetails/blogs/All-s-well-that-ends-well-20130807
Thanks to the timely intervention of the Italian government, Joseph Muscat’s sabre-rattling on immigration has politically paid off. His intransigence to refuse the disembarkation of 102 migrants left Italy with no choice but to intervene to avert a humanitarian tragedy just outside Maltese territorial waters.
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Träumen die Mittelmeerstaaten von einem Papua-Neuguinea in Europa, um Bootsflüchtlinge dort einzusperren?
Am 5. August 2013 um etwa 1 Uhr morgens, 46,6 nautische Meilen von Libyen und 140 Meilen von Malta entfernt, rettet der liberianische Tanker Salamis 102 Bootsflüchtlinge. Diese Intervention folgt Anweisungen von Italien, diesem in Seenot geratenen Boot zu Hilfe zu kommen. Weiterlesen »
Der Fall „Salamis“ – erneuter Versuch, Flüchtlinge nach Libyen zurückzudrängen
*Der Fall Salamis erneuter Versuch, Flüchtlinge nach Libyen zurückzudrängen*
In der Nacht vom 4. auf den 5. August hat der unter liberianischer Flagge fahrende Tanker M/T Salamis 102 Migranten 46 Seemeilen vor der libyschen Küste aus einem sinkenden Schlauchboot gerettet. Die Flüchtlinge waren in Richtung Europa, die Salamis Richtung Malta unterwegs.
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Migrant pushbacks | ‚No final decision was taken‘, Malta tells Strasbourg court
Sending migrants back to Libya ‘just one of the possibilities considered’, Government tells European Court of Human Rights.
via Migrant pushbacks | ‚No final decision was taken‘, Malta tells Strasbourg court – maltatoday.com.mt.
Malta’s ‘push back’ stand-off: what can Australia learn?
Malta has become the latest country to try to “push back” asylum seekers, implementing a policy similar to that being advocated by the Coalition as its “Real Solution” to the phenomenon of boats arriving on Australian shores.
In policies reminiscent of Australia, the Maltese government is scrambling to appear tough on migration and depict the arrival of asylum seekers as a crisis that warrants a security response.
http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/fr
La CEDH empêche le refoulement de migrants vers la Libye
Créé le Jeudi, 11 juillet 2013 10:25
Le 9 juillet, 102 personnes sont interceptées par les autorités maltaises. 49 hommes de nationalité somalienne sont portés au poste de police et menacés d’un renvoi immédiat vers la Libye, pays par lequel ils ont transité avant la traversée.