Arrivals

2012 month:      0

2012 cumul.:    72

2011 month: 5'700

2011 cumul.: 5'700 

Arrivals

2012 month:   86

2012 cumul.: 192

2011 month:   51

2011 cumul.:  51

Arrivals

   2012 month:   0

   2012 cumul.: 68

   2011 month:   0

   2011 cumul.:  0 

Victims

2012 month:   0

2012 cumul.: 55

2011 month: 35

2011 cumul.: 35 

Total Arrivals

total month:      86

total cumul.:    332

Tunisia:       41  

Libya:        140

other:        151

Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia): 45 'Asians' (Afghans and Iraqis)

intercepted by GdF; one Albanian trafficker arrested  ANSA 26.2.

Italian MP Riccardo Migliori suggests creation of an Italian-Tunisian technical committee to investigate fate of missing, with assistance of FRONTEX, IOM and INTERPOL

 TAP 15.2. / TN 16.2.

Houcine Jaziri, State Secretary in charge of migration, meets French counterpart to discuss revitalization of 2008 migration agreement    TAP 27.2.

PM Monti: Italy will take steps in light of ECtHR ruling   ANSA 23.2.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decides that Italy's push-back practice amounts to collective expulsion and violates the European Convention on Human Rights   ECtHR 23.2.

FRONTEX publishes update on Joint Operation HERMES (2011-2012)

FRONTEX 21.2.

Mediterranean 5+5 Meeting in Rome; general dialogue without specific results ANSAmed 20.2.

Lampedusa still

an 'unsafe port' 

Mazara del Vallo (Sicily): 41 Tunisians travelling on a 15 m   boat intercepted by GdF 10 miles off the coast; a dozen migrants escape during transfer to Pozzallo, four captured

Rep 10.2.
 

Mediterranean bad weather spell late January and

first half of February

Resettlement: Two Somali and Eritrean families leave for Germany under EUREMA scheme  ToM 13.2.

Since 2006, almost 1500 migrants haven been relocated from Malta to third countries, 824 of which went to the US

ToM 6./13.2.

13 refugees from Somalia and Eritrea leave Malta for the US  ToM 6.2.

Tunisian government requests Italian help to investigate the fate of 1000 "harragas" that disappeared while crossing the Mediterranean last Spring 

ANSAmed 13.2.

According to Houcine Jaziri a total of 200 Tunsisian migrants are still missing; families are requested to supply DNA evidence and fingerprints to identify victims kept in

Italian morgues    TAP 11.2.

Relatives of missing "harragas" stage a sit-in in front of Tunisian consulate at Palermo    TAP 10.2.

 Brigadier Martin Xuereb, Commander of the Armed Forces of Malta, in Tripoli to discuss the training of Libyan Coast Guard officers in Malta    MT 13.2.

PM Abdelrahim al-Kib informs Belgium FM Didier Reynders that Libya intends to combat Mediterranean illegal migration BE/Europe Online 13.2.

Tunisian Secretary of State in charge of immigration and expatriates, Houcine   Jaziri, meets Italian delegation to discuss illegal migration Problems   TAP 8.2. 

Italy's new special envoy for the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Maurizio Massari, begins his first regional tour    ANSAmed 1.2.