Youngsters, little more then children, incarcerated and tried like adults, are being charged as 'smugglers' upon their arrival in Italy. While the real human traffickers remain in Libya. The Italian news agency ANSA has collected some of their stories.
The ASGI association has sounded an alarm in Italy over new rules, which require those accessing all public offices to have a Green pass. This, they fear, could potentially compromise some migrants' potential to seek asylum.
Equal Rights Beyond Borders and
Sea-Watch, says that the ad-hoc relocation mechanism in place for people rescued at sea is degrading, non-transparent and inhumane : With inhumane and unjustified detention in Italian and Maltese hotspots, there is a massive lack of fair access to information. Legal assistance for protection seekers in the EUropean border states is not granted. Many protection seekers remain stuck after being excluded from the relocation procedure because of dubious security screenings by the German Domestic Intelligence Service. Once in Germany, most protection seekers face renewed insecurity, accelerated asylum procedures without access to prior counselling and legal remedy, in the end, threaten to be deported.