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Migrants: the dangerous liaisons between NGOs and smugglers

2022-11-20T19:30:35.264Z


BIG STORY - Relief operations, such as that carried out by the Ocean Viking, are accused by the European border control agency Frontex of "influencing the planning" of illegal immigration networks. The associations, they refute any collusion.


Ocean Viking

,

Rise Above

,

Geo Barents

,

Mare Jonio

,

Sea Watch 3

,

Open Arms Uno

and so many other ambulance boats… The NGO fleet to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean has never been so large.

Half are linked to German NGOs.

These ships are at least twenty to distribute the interventions at sea, marrying the frantic pace set by the networks of organized crime which enrich themselves on the human distress by launching, mainly from the Libyan coasts, overloaded boats of exiles.

With, as a backdrop, this nagging question in the host countries: are humanitarian workers, without wanting to, the guarantors of a system that would not work as well without them?

They defend themselves with the strongest energy, refuting any collusion and highlighting the drama of these thousands of uprooted drowned or missing, as on April 22, 2021, when the

Ocean Viking

recovered 130 bodies after the sinking of a pneumatic boat.

Francois Thomas...

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Source: lefigaro

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