On Wednesday, 24.04.2024, the General Court of the European Union will rule on the Sea-Watch v Frontex case. Sea-Watch filed a complaint in April 2022 and a hearing was held in Luxembourg in October 2023. Previously, the border agency had refused a Freedom of information (FOI) request. The release of the withheld information is intended…
Download Factsheet [PDF] This factsheet presents a summary of the distress cases witnessed in March 2023 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne Operations with the aircraft Seabird 2.1 In March 2023, we conducted 12 operations over a total flight time of 77 hours and 14 minutes. We spotted 62 boats, carrying over 2.091 persons2 in distress at sea.…
In 2022, 105,131 people arrived to Italy by sea, mainly from Tunisia and Libya. In Malta, however, the arrivals were only 444 people. In order to fully put these arrival figures into perspective, the mortality figures as well as numbers of illegal returns (pullbacks) committed by the Tunisian and the so-called Libyan Coast Guard in…
This factsheet presents a summary of the distress cases witnessed in January and February 2023 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne Operations with the aircraft Seabird 2 (1). In January and February 2023, we conducted 8 operations over a total flight time of 56 hours and 41 minutes. We spotted 9 boats, carrying around 517 (2) persons in distress at sea. Download…
Jakob is Tactical Coordinator for our air reconnaissance mission Airborne. We spoke to him about the current situation in the Mediterranean and a particularly violent incident on March 25th. You spent the last few weeks on Lampedusa. From there, you left almost daily by plane to the area of operation. What is the situation like…
