Italy |
Malta |
Accidents, Victims, SAR, Debarkation, Detention, Repatriation Resettlement
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Diplomacy, Politics, Law
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Lampedusa | Italy South | |||
Arrivals
2012 month: 168 2012 cumul.: 679 2011 month: 6'050 2011 cumul.: 20'150
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Arrivals
2012 month: 160 2012 cumul.: 414 2011 month: 887 2011 cumul.: 1'920 |
Arrivals
2012 month: 52 2012 cumul.: 120 2011 month: 287 2011 cumul.: 1'103
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Victims
2012 month: 12 2012 cumul.: 76 2011 month: 644 2011 cumul.: 745
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Total Arrivals 2012
month: 380 cumul.: 1'213 Tunisia: 481 Libya: 446 others 286
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Lampedusa still an 'unsafe port'
Arrival at Linosa of a rubber dinghy with 78 Somalis aboard; boat reported missing off Libya earlier in the day
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Agrigento (Sicily): 25 North Africans (Egyptians) intercepted by Carabinieri; speed boat escapes ANSA 29.4.
Licata (Sicily): Arrival of 18 Egyptians; a minor found dead on beach ANSA 28.4.
Locri (Calabria): 35 Afghans seized by police after landing; one found dead; smugglers apparently dropped around 40 migrants into shallow water
Palma di Montechiaro (Sicily): Police seize 15 Tunisians who landed on a sandy beach at dawn; search for more arrivals continues ANSA 25.4.
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52 Egyptians inter-cepted by police: 29 at Manikata, 23 in Gozo; arriving or escaping? Speed boat observed; possible link to Sicilian landings
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Ten Nigerians, waiting for repatriation, escape at night from Maltese deten-tion camp; four recaptured in the morning
After an attempt at self-immolation a delegation of Tunisian mothers in search of their sons missing since last March is received by PM Hamadi Jebali's office; effective cooperation with Italian authorities demanded
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The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) backs the resolutions and recommendations contained in the Tineke Strik report of 29 March; NATO, once more, rejects any responsibility
In a legal opinion the ECJ's Advocate General calls for the annulment of the FRONTEX Sea Border Rule thereby supporting Malta's protest against the existing disembarkation practice
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24 Somalis, in Lampedusa for three weeks, demand better health care and a general improvement of detention conditions
Renato Balduzzi, Italian Minister of Health, inspects damaged reception center
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bad weather continues
bad weather continues
Caltanissetta (Sicily): At the Pian del Lago CIE a dozen migrants arraigned for attempting to escape
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As a follow-up to the 29 March PACE report about the death of 63 migrants off Libya a year ago a group of experts at Goldsmiths, University of London, publishes a detailed 90-page study of the tragedy MaS 11.4.
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Publication of 2012 FRONTEX Annual Risk Analysis (ARA) mentioning 64'000 Central Mediterranean 'detections' for the year 2011; my count is 47'000!
Italian-Tunisian Military Committee meets to discuss the fight against illegal mi-gration "as part of a comprehensive framework" TAP 14.4.
Subsequent to the PACE report a group of nine NGOs start legal action against the French Armed Forces for failing to rescue migrants in distress off Libya in late March 2011 B4P 11.4.
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48 migrants from Libya rescued in rough sea by GC and Italian military vessel; taken to Lampedusa; ten reported dead, six Somalis & four Eritreans.
Linosa: Carabinieri discover 42 Tunisians along coast; probably dropped off by fishermen; transfer to Porto Empedocle ANSA 1.4.
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poor weather conditions in Southern Italy; snowfall on Mount Aetna
Mazara del Vallo (Sicily): Midnight interception by GdF of a fishing vessel carrying 62 Tunisians; search for migrant smugglers ANSA 6.4. |
AFM commission (second) new maritime patrol aircraft co-financed by EU External Borders Fund ToM 3.4. |
Glue found by Carabinieri at Lampedusa indicates that migrants try to disguise finger prints to prevent identification ANSA 2.4.
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Tunisia and Libya launch security partnership that, among other things, includes combatting illegal migration Magh 6.4.
Anna Maria Cancellieri in Libya to sign agreement regulating various aspects of illegal migration; includes police training and IOM involvement
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