Frontex sent 2,200 messages to Libya to detain migrants at sea despite abuses by its coast guard. A journalistic investigation reveals that the European border agency has provided the coordinates of clandestine boats to Tripoli for three years.

The documents reveal several cases of attacks by the coast guard against the migrants on the boats. The Mediterranean continues to be the largest maritime cemetery in the world: 2,797 people remained under its waters in 2023, and more than 28,000 registered victims in the last decade.