MSF condemns the drowning of more than 90 people in the Mediterranean

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Rome, April 2 (EFE) .- More than 90 people aboard a ship that left the Libyan coast a few days ago have died in the Mediterranean, condemns today the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and calls on the European Union. EU) was in the region “to reveal the details of this tragic event.”

“More than 90 people have lost their lives in international waters since leaving Libya aboard a ship many days ago. “Commercial oil tanker Alegría 1 rescued only 4 survivors in the morning, in the first place,” MSF wrote on its social media this Saturday.

“We know from our initial contact with Allegria 1 that the survivors said they had been at sea for at least four days aboard a ship carrying nearly 100 people,” said the NGO, which has a humanitarian aid ship in the Mediterranean. Geo Barents.

According to MSF, the Panamanian-flagged oil tanker that rescued four survivors “is now heading to Libya” ignores not only MSF’s offers of medical care but also calls for these people not to return to Libya, where they are almost certain they will face arrest. “Insult and ill-treatment.”

He insisted that “no survivor should return to a place where he is threatened with arrest, violence and ill-treatment. “Libya is not a safe place” and asked “the coordination centers of Rome and Malta to coordinate this operation and designate a safe place for them before it is too late.”

“We also call on Frontex and other EU agencies in the region to disclose details of this tragic event,” he said.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said two weeks ago that at least 215 people had died or disappeared in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.

The agency called for “concrete actions” to be taken to reduce the loss of life through a dedicated and active search-and-rescue and “safe” deployment mechanism in accordance with international law.

According to the latest IOM annual report, 655 people died in 2021 and another 897 went missing on the Central Mediterranean migration route, one of the deadliest in the world, while 32,425 people – including 1,309 minors – were rescued or arrested.

The most dangerous migration route in the world remains, according to the UN agency, the one that connects Libya and Tunisia with Italy and Malta, 769 people died in the first six months of 2021 and more than 18,000 since 2014.

Responsible for the rescue operations is the Libyan Coast Guard, an organization largely set up by the European Union and suspected by various international organizations of its alleged links to the Mafia, which are dedicated to lucrative business. Smuggling of people.

Source: El Diario

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