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Airborne Monthly Factsheet November 2020 – January 2021

This factsheet presents a summary of distress cases witnessed by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew from the aircraft Moonbird.* From November 2020 to January 2021, primarily due to bad weather in the Central Mediterranean Sea, we flew only 16 missions with a total flight time of 73 hours and 22 minutes. We spotted around 165 persons in…

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Airborne Factsheet November 2020 – January 2021

This factsheet presents a summary of distress cases witnessed by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew from the aircraft Moonbird.* From November 2020 to January 2021, primarily due to bad weather in the Central Mediterranean Sea, we flew only 16 missions with a total flight time of 73 hours and 22 minutes. We spotted around 165 persons in…

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3 years later: remembering November 6th, 2017

On 6 November, 2017, the so-called Libyan Coast Guard caused the death of at least 20 people through the violent intervention against a boat in distress. The Sea-Watch 3 is witnessing the incident live at that time and tries to calm down the chaotic situation while dozens of people are already in the water. Our…

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6 Novembre 2017: tre anni dopo la ferita è sempre aperta.

Il 6 novembre 2017, 50 persone persero la vita in un naufragio a 30 miglia dalle coste libiche. Mentre 47 fra i sopravvissuti furono respinti illegalmente in Libia, #SeaWatch3 riuscì a portare in salvo 58 persone, fra cui Giwa. Nel terzo anniversario di quella strage, abbiamo raccolto la sua testimonianza insieme a quella di Gennaro, mediatore…

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Crimes of Malta 08

#CrimesOfMalta: Malta delays the rescue of 63 people in imminent life-threatening danger by a whole night. 16.07. – 17.07.2020: “We are dying, we are dying! Nobody is helping us, there is just sea! Please help, help, help!” The people on board the boat in distress called the Watch The Med – Alarmphone in panic at…

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Crimes of Malta 07

#CrimesOfMalta: 52 people had to wait several days on a merchant vessel under inhuman and degrading conditions, while neither Italy nor Malta offered a port for safe landing and refused entry into their territorial waters. 03.07. – 07.07.2020: After 52 people had already spent two days at sea, they called the Watch the Med -…

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Airborne Monthly Factsheet September 2020

This factsheet outlines a summary of the distress cases witnessed in September 2020 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne crew from the aircraft Moonbird and Seabird. In September 2020 we flew 8 missions, with a total flight time of 65 hours and 06 minutes. We spotted around 333 persons in distress. Since 04.09., Moonbird has been grounded by…

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