Frontex delivers cruelty from the skies
Despite its claims of saving lives, Frontex is putting people at risk by aiding Libya’s interceptions of migrant boats.
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Despite its claims of saving lives, Frontex is putting people at risk by aiding Libya’s interceptions of migrant boats.
In the footage, you can see the small, overcrowded wooden boat motoring away in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea as the Libyan Coast Guard vessel, the Ras Jadir, chases it. It is too far away to see any faces, but it seems like the people are aware they are being chased and are trying to evade capture.
German sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch is suing Frontex for refusing to disclose some 73 documents on its possible role in helping the Libyan coast guard intercept migrants in Malta's rescue zone.
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the EU has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centres run by militias.
In May of 2021, I traveled to Libya to explore the troubling story of the countrys prisons for migra...