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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.
In the early morning #AlarmPhone received a distress call from a boat with 47 people fleeing #Libya. They are in Maltese SAR Zone. Authorities in #Malta are informed but refuse to tell us if they are launching a rescue operation. The people must be urgently rescued to #Europe! 
We are in contact with the people on the boat & they are worried. They left Zuwara, #Libya, 30h ago & now the engine is not working. They are drifting with no life vests & no rescue in sight. They already survived 2 nights at sea: #Malta, don’t let them drown! @Armed_Forces_MT
8:51 CET. We just talked to the people on the boat. They say there is water entering the boat and they are very afraid that no one will come to help them. Some people cry in the background. They are asking for help and they need urgent rescue! Why is nobody searching for them?
Our Central #Mediterranean Regional Analysis is out!
It covers the period 1 Oct to 31 Dec 2019 & discusses key developments in this region of the #Med.
In 2019, we were alerted to 101 boats escaping #Libya or #Tunisia, carrying over 6,200 people.
alarmphone.org/en/2020/01/05/…
It covers the period 1 Oct to 31 Dec 2019 & discusses key developments in this region of the #Med.
In 2019, we were alerted to 101 boats escaping #Libya or #Tunisia, carrying over 6,200 people.
alarmphone.org/en/2020/01/05/…
Our analysis of the central #Med highlights some of the following:
🔸#CivilFleet & #AlarmPhone rescues
🔸Non-assistance & interceptions by #Europe & allies
🔸“Privatised” push-backs to #Libya
🔸Recent shipwrecks & the invisibilised deaths at sea
🔸Messages from Libyan #detention
🔸#CivilFleet & #AlarmPhone rescues
🔸Non-assistance & interceptions by #Europe & allies
🔸“Privatised” push-backs to #Libya
🔸Recent shipwrecks & the invisibilised deaths at sea
🔸Messages from Libyan #detention
Despite all atrocities we witnessed in the central #Med, people did not stop struggling for #FreedomOfMovement & #safepassage. Many boats reached #Europe autonomously, NGO vessels returned to sea & rescued hundreds of people & migrants resisted their illegal push-back to #Libya.
🔸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
Yet another shipwreck? During the night, at around 3.30am, we were called by a boat off the coast of #Libya, with up to 100 people on board. They had left Al Khums about 3 hours earlier. They were in severe distress, crying and shouting, telling us that people had died already.
We tried to get their GPS position but the people were in such panic that they could not retrieve it. As the boat was still very close to the Libyan coast, we had no other option but to inform authorities in #Libya and #Italy. We think nobody went out to look for them.
We were never able to speak to the people again. At 6am, a relative called us, saying he feared for the people on this boat. He was scared that they might be dead. We do not know what happened to this group of travellers – we still hope they are all alive but we fear the worst.
