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EU policies partly to blame for 3,000 deaths in Mediterranean last year, say rights groups
Rescue organisations warn decree requiring their boats to return directly to a given port – often far away – prevents them from helping others in distress
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Stefanie Glinski
Thu 15 Feb 2024 12.49 GMT
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Several groups running rescue missions in the Mediterranean are calling for a change in the EU’s policies, which they say are partly to blame for the drownings of more than 3,000 people last year.
A 2023 decree has severely reduced the response capacity of the NGO-run civil fleet’s search-and-rescue missions, routinely putting the lives of people crossing the Mediterranean at risk.
The order, implemented by the Italian interior minister Matteo Piantedosi, states that once a rescue has been completed, civil fleets must immediately head to an assigned port of disembarkation without delay, using the most direct route. This stops additional rescues happening, the groups said.
At the same time, Italy has begun assigning rescue boats to its ports far away from where they operate, which forces them to sail hundreds of extra miles, hindering their Mediterranean patrols. According to an SOS Humanity report, in 2023, these vessels wasted 374 days making the longer journeys.
Rescue boats covered more than 150,500km (93,500 miles) – the world’s circumference is 40,000km – in one year to take “unnecessarily long” routes, the report said, saying these demands only target humanitarian boats, and not the Italian coastguard.
“This is not a coincidence, but a political tactic,” the report said.
A coastguard patrol boat at sea
A coastguard patrol boat searches for dozens of missing migrants from a boat that sank on 26 February 2023, off the coast of southern Italy. Photograph: Kontrolab/LightRocket/Getty Images
In 2023, the Italian NGO Emergency rescued 1,077 people during 14 missions in the central Mediterranean. Nine times over the year, rather than heading to the closest port from the search-and-rescue zone – such as Sicily – Emergency was ordered to dock as far away as Tuscany, adding several additional days of sailing.
The Italian government said such measures help distribute arrivals, but NGOs argue it costs lives and pushes up fuel expenditure.
“Costs for such detours are exorbitant,” said Emanuele Nannini, who heads Emergency’s rescue missions. “We often have to pay an additional €50,000 (£43,000) per rescue in fuel alone.”
However, he said he was mostly concerned about the people the organisation wasn’t able to rescue. “Sailing to these faraway ports hinders us from doing rescue missions for at least eight days. In the meantime, people are drowning.”
Of the nearly 30,000 migrants who have died or gone missing since 2014, the International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants project reported that at least 27,088 drowned.
The EU doesn’t have a coordinated search-and-rescue operation but, according to international maritime law, any coastal state aware of a boat in distress has a duty to intervene. However, this often doesn’t happen and NGOs trying to fill this gap receive little support – only additional obstacles.
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“It’s our legal duty to inform all of these countries’ maritime rescue and coordination centres when we find an unseaworthy boat in distress,” said Nannini, adding that the first county to respond – whether that’s Libya, Tunisia, Malta or Italy – will coordinate the rescue.
“Italy is repeatedly the only country to reply,” he added. “The other coastal states just ignore us. Once a rescue is completed, we’re immediately assigned a port, which makes it almost impossible to perform additional rescues – unless the boats in distress are on our direct route to the port.”
The majority of boats in distress that have departed northern Africa to cross the Mediterranean are still rescued by the Italian coast guard and other government entities, with NGOs accounting for just 8% of the total rescues, according to Emergency.
Most people attempting to cross the Mediterranean make it successfully. Towards the end of last year, the EU reached a deal aiming to spread the cost and responsibility for hosting asylum seekers across all member states.
The commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said the pact would “ensure an effective European response to this European challenge” and mean “Europeans will decide who comes to the EU and who can stay, not people smugglers”.
A child’s onesie and other belongings are washed up on the beach after a boat sank off Italy’s southern coast on 26 February 2023.
Almost 30,000 migrants have died or gone missing while crossing the Mediterranean since 2014. Photograph: Alessandro Serranò/AFP/Getty Images
However, human rights groups including Amnesty, Oxfam, Caritas and Save the Children have criticised the changes, saying in an open letter they would create a “cruel system”.
Italy’s rightwing government has also announced a potential deal with Albania that could result in up to 36,000 migrants a year being transferred from Italy to reception centres in Albania. Amnesty International called the proposal “unworkable, harmful and unlawful”.

Struggling now, disproving you & your remainiacs lies that eu are nice people
What did you say , I knew you couldn’t post a link , come back to bite you on the ass big time hasn’t it 😂😂

But are you working class?😱😂

What was the total immigration into the UK from the latest data.

This attempt to smear them all because of the disgusting act of of a few is pretty disgusting Epping.

Jesus Christ

The barbarians are at the gate

Oh that's your response!

See it's people like you that make me stay away from this section of this forum and or rejoining Asschat after I got banned.

You can't debate you only slander.

So have you watched any of those said videos?

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Well eldest grandson works for a leading consultancy in Washington DC.
His brother is about to graduate and continue to Medical School in North Carolina
Youngest grandson graduates High School next year.

Two granddaughters in the Seattle area are only 5. They attend a French Immersion school and their parents (my son and his French wife) have been asked to run a class where Nowruz (New Day), the Persian New Year, will be discussed with activities. The class will learn where the tradition comes from, what happens and generally have fun.

What they won't be doing is listening to knuckle heads fretting about something they know nothing about whilst sat whimpering at home in a form of catatonic brain freeze.

So please, it's not me who should take the blinkers off.

Don't patronize me,nor dare try to besmirch me with trading our past experiences..

There is a difference between celebrating Christmas within the safety of a house/apartment to what is being forced upon us with Ramadan lights.

Can you honestly say that you saw Christmas lights,trees etc... like you did in London the other day during your time in the middle east? and do you have photographic proof?

As I call BS... With respect.

Also, will Hanukkah be celebrated as such here in London? What about St George's day shortly?

You know the answer.

Again I ask.....Have you seen those videos that I speak of where Muslim man are w****** off outside British woman's front room windows? And why at the time of doing thy act of "knobbing off" were they not in surgery seeing patients,or at science class teaching students?