The Mediterranean, also in 2019, proved to be a huge cemetery for drowned migrants as they tried to reach Europe. The number of deaths, almost 1,300, for various reasons has almost halved compared to 2018, but the risk that these desperate people run in pursuit of a better future remains very high. Arrivals, overall down 5%, halved in Italy and doubled in Greece. This is the picture that emerges from a press release of the IOM, the International Organization for Migration, which draws up a balance for the year just ended of the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe through the three Mediterranean routes. Arrivals in the continent were 110,669, with a 5% decrease compared to the previous year and deaths amounted to 1,283 with a decrease of 44% on 2018 which however brings the number of deaths to almost 20 thousand (19,164) since 2014 On the most dangerous route, the one between Libya and Italy, one in 33 migrants would have died compared to the ratio of one to 51 in 2017 and one to 35 in 2018, calculate the Oim researchers.
Massacre of migrants, 1300 dead in the Mediterranean in 2019
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Oim, victims down 44% but the risk remains very high (ANSA)