It is a reminder of the policy: Several aid organizations to bring refugees out of the Mediterranean immediately to Europe. Prior to the repatriation to Libya, the Maritime search and rescue warn insistently.
to create An Alliance of charities calls on the EU member States, in the Mediterranean sea, rescued refugees in the future, immediately to Europe. In addition, Maritime search and rescue need to be supported better, – said in a joint appeal from around 40 organizations, including “Doctors without borders, Oxfam, and Caritas Europe.
After each rescue operation “to lead the EU governments agonizing and lengthy debates about where the ship may invest, and which countries take the Rescued” in the open letter that was also addressed directly to the Federal Minister of justice Katarina Barley (SPD) and the German interior Minister, Horst Seehofer (CSU).
Rescued refugees on Board the vessel “Aquarius”
“eyes of the tragedy is closed”
For more than half a year, the EU would seek government, without success, to agree on a distribution method. In the meantime, at least 2,500 people since the January 2018 in the Mediterranean sea, drowned. “Meanwhile, the heads of state and government of the EU prior to this tragedy, their eyes locked, and in this way complicit in that.”
The organisations also criticise that the Libyan coast guard, migrants bring back into the country. But you would be arrested “with great probability, arbitrarily, abused, tortured or sold into slavery”. Since 2018, more than 15,000 migrants had been back to Libya. This should not tolerate the EU for longer.