Sea-Watch strongly rejects the accusation of direct support of migrant smuggling by SAR-NGOs, which was raised by Frontex. “Frontex itself creates the business field for trafficking, since the border protection agency is implementing the EU’s policy of closure. As a result, Frontex is at least complicit for the deaths of over 5,000 people at its…
DetailsIn deep mourning we want to remember all those we were not able to rescue from distress at sea this year. In 2016, a sad record has been broken: The International Organization for Migration counts 4.699 refugees and migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean or are missing (as of 30/11/2016). Never before so many people…
DetailsAs a consequence to the occurrences on the 21th of october Sea-Watch is pressing charges against the members involved of the Libyan coastguard because of an attack to a rubber boat with 150 refugees on board, of which four are dead and most probably 15-25 more victims. On the 21th of october a boat from…
DetailsReply to the statement of the Commander of the European operation Sophia on the training of Libya´s so-called “coastguard” “It is cynical, that the commander of the operation Sophia, Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino, claims the training of Libyan coastguards could cut the death toll on the med.” Sea-Watch CEO Axel Grafmanns says. “It’s only meant…
DetailsAn intervention by a speedboat, labelled as Libyan Coast Guard, during one of today’s rescue operation caused several deaths today in the Central Med, 14nm off Libya. During our first-aid delivery for a rubber boat with approximately 150 migrants on board, a Libyan Coast Guard vessel arrived and attacked the refugees, entering the rubber boat…
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