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🟠Also in the Central Mediterranean Sea: Black Lives Matter!
Alarm Phone Central Mediterranean Regional Analysis, 1 January - 30 June 2020.
#CivilFleet #FreedomOfMovement #FerriesNotFrontex #BridgesNotWalls
alarmphone.org/en/2020/07/06/…
Alarm Phone Central Mediterranean Regional Analysis, 1 January - 30 June 2020.
#CivilFleet #FreedomOfMovement #FerriesNotFrontex #BridgesNotWalls
alarmphone.org/en/2020/07/06/…
Over the past 6 months, January to June 2020, the Central #Mediterranean has continued to be a zone of violence, human rights abuses, disappearance and death, as well as a stage of struggles for #freedomofmovement, both by people fleeing #Libya & #Tunisia and by the #CivilFleet.
In 2020, so far, the #AlarmPhone has supported 77 boats in distress in the Central #Med, carrying ~4,500 people. This does not include dozens of boats that called us but where we were unable to establish sufficient contact to retrieve crucial information, such as GPS positions.
Today a fisherman informed us that he spotted ca. 45 people on a boat in distress at sea. According to him, they left #Libya 2 days ago, were adrift in terrible sea, without food & unable to make distress calls. He tried to inform Libyan authorities but they were unreachable.
We hope that the rubber boat has not capsized yet, & that the ca. 45 people are still alive & will reach a place of safety.
We hope we'll be able to celebrate the beginning of a new year with good news of their rescue or arrival, although the chances are low.
#BridgesNotWalls
We hope we'll be able to celebrate the beginning of a new year with good news of their rescue or arrival, although the chances are low.
#BridgesNotWalls
🔸3 ottobre 2013: in un naufragio al largo di #Lampedusa muoiono 368 persone. Sono passati 6 anni - cosa è cambiato? Le politiche di frontiera dell’#UE hanno reso il #Mediterraneo centrale ancora più pericoloso e letale, uccidendo ogni anno migliaia di persone. #3ottobre 
🔸3 ottobre 2019: negli ultimi 6 anni un’iniziale volontà di salvare le persone ha lasciato il posto al desiderio di scoraggiarle, criminalizzando ONG e migranti. I soccorsi sono stati rifiutati o ritardati per consentire sequestri di massa da parte delle autorità libiche.
🔸In questo giorno, protestiamo contro la cooptazione ipocrita delle morti di migranti da parte di chi ne è responsabile, oggi come allora: le istituzioni dell'UE e gli stati membri. Non osate commemorare quelli che avete ucciso. #safepassage, #BridgesNotWalls, #portiaperti
🔸3 October 2013: a #shipwreck off #Lampedusa takes the lives of 368 people. Six years have passed - what has changed? #EU border policies have made the central #Mediterranean even more dangerous & lethal - thousands of lives a year have been taken. #3ottobre, #FortressEurope
🔸3 October 2019: Over the past 6 years, a short-lived concern for rescue gave way to the desire to deter. NGOs and migrants were criminalised. Rescues were intentionally refused or delayed to allow for mass abductions via the Libyan authorities. #FerriesNotFrontex
🔸 On this day, we protest the hypocritical co-optation of migrant deaths by those who are implicated in this continuous loss: #EU institutions and member states. Do not dare to commemorate those you have killed. #safepassage, #BridgesNotWalls
