Ships are detained, our airplane Moonbird grounded, and our activists are being intimidated. Together with the humanitarian NGOs Doctors Without Borders, Sea-Eye, Mare Liberum, Mediterranea, SMH (Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario), ProActiva Open Arms, Alarm Phone and RESQSHIP we condemn the ongoing criminalization of our work. We stand in solidarity with people on the move. Together we…
#CrimesOfMalta: A Maltese aircraft guides the so-called Libyan Coast Guard to a distress case. Later a pull-back to Libya is reported. Was the illegal return coordinated by Malta? It would not be the first time… 14 July 2020: Our Moonbird crew overhears an aircraft repeatedly contacting the patrol boat “Ras Jadar” of the…
#CrimesOfMalta: The Armed Forces Malta provisionally fix the engine of a boat in distress in order to induce the people to continue their passage to Lampedusa and shuffle off the obligation to provide assistance to Italy. 11 to 12 August 2020: On August 11, Moonbird spots a wooden boat drifting in the Maltese…
#CrimesOfMalta: The Maltese Rescue Coordination Centre refuses its duty to coordinate rescues of people in distress at sea in its own search and rescue zone, deliberately accepting the risk of endangering human life. 13 to 14 February 2020: 34 people on board a wooden boat in distress call Watch the Med – Alarm…
Download Open Letter Dear Ursula von der Leyen, With great disappointment we could not find the announcement of a European Search and Rescue operation in the Pact on Migration, despite the fact that, as underlined in your State of the Union speech: “saving lives at sea is not optional”. We consider that the safety and…
