âItâs a day offâ: wiretaps show Mediterranean migrants were left to die A Libyan coastguard official with people rescued from the sea on 27 June 2017. Photograph: Taha Jawashi/AFP/Getty Exclusive: Transcripts of conversations between Italian officials and Libyan coastguard contained in leaked file Fri 16 Apr 2021 15.30 EDT Last modified on Sat 17 Apr 2021 00.09 EDT At 8.18am on Friday 16 June 2017, the Libyan coastguard Col Massoud Abdalsamad received a long-distance phone call from an Italian coastguard official who told him that 10 migrant dinghies were in distress, many in Libyan territorial waters. âItâs a day off. Itâs a holiday here. But I can try to help,â Abdalsamad told the official. âPerhaps we can be there tomorrow.â