Italy |
Malta |
Accidents, Victims, SAR, Debarkation, Detention, Repatriation Resettlement
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Diplomacy, Politics, Law
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Arrivals
2012 month: 83 2012 cumul.: 762 2011 month: 6'046 2011 cumul.: 26'196
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Arrivals
2012 month: 561 2012 cumul.: 975 2011 month: 1'345 2011 cumul.: 3'265
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Arrivals
2012 month: 594 2012 cumul.: 714 2011 month: 347 2011 cumul.: 1'450 |
Victims
2012 month: 23 2012 cumul.: 99 2011 month: 54 2011 cumul.: 799
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Total Arrivals 2012
month: 1'238 cumul.: 2'451 Tunisia: 669 Libya: 1'106 other: 676
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Lecce (Apulia): A total of 126 migrants apprehended by police, some along Otranto highway, others at railroad station; nightly landing suspected; Turkish boat discovered
Stignano (Calabria): On a coastal highway police apprehend 30 migrants (29 Egyptians and 1 Palestinian) that landed during the night ANSA 30.5.
Pozzallo (Sicily): GC rescues 76 Egyptians off Ragusa beach; next day police arrest another group of 18; 4 migrants reported missing
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65 Eritreans and Somalis rescued by AFM with the help of GC and two merchant vessels LH 31.5.
AFM rescues another 87 Somalis reported by a French vessel
136 East African mi-grants brought ashore by AFM patrol boat; another 52 arrive later in the day bringing the grand total to 188
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89 sSAfricans prevented from leaving Libya by boat LH 27.5.
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PACE rapporteur Tineke Strik briefs the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee on her continuing investgiation of the March 2011 tragedy and urges the EU to draft a 'Protocol on the Mediterr-anean' covering issues such as rescue, repatriation and resettlement
Libyan Interior Minister Fawzi Abdelali and the head of the UNHCR will be visiting Malta next week for talks which will focus on immigration ToM 30.5.
Maltese Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici resigns after losing vote of con-fidence ToM 30.5.
Commission proposes EURODAC improvements, a program to collect finger-prints of asylum seekers; part of the EU's Common European Asylum System EUCOM 30.5.
On a state visit to Lithuania Maltese President George Abela urges the EU to "tackle the migration issue" and to help Malta with the growing influx of boatpeople ToM 29.5.
Approximately 6'000 irregular maritime migrants, mostly from Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan, said to live in Rome
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GC intercepts rubber dinghy with 54 migrants from Libya; debarkation at Lampedusa, then taken to Porto Empedocle
Decomposed body of a North-African migrant discovered by GC off Lampione ANSA 25.5.
Three sSAfricans arrested by Brescia (Lombardy) police for organized migrant smuggling to Lampedusa Rep 24.5.
Italian Minister for Integration, Andrea Riccardi, demands that Lampedusa be opened for emergency receptions RV 24.5.
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Palermo (Sicily): A total of 50 migrants (from Tunisia?) arrested by police along Trapani coast highways ANSA 25.5. / GdS 25.5.
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Four dinghies leave Libya; two inter- cepted by Libyan Coast Guard; one rescued by merchant vessel and taken to Libya; a fourth intercepted by GdF and brought to Lampedusa; survivors speak of at least 10 missing
Malta repatriates 11 Nigerians on a FRONTEX coordinated flight together with migrants from other Schengen countries ToM 24.5.
Carabinieri arrest members of a Lecce-based organization employing migrants under 'slave-like' conditions
Malta authorities arrest two citizens suspected of migrant and drug smuggling by sea ToM 22.5
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Swiss government negotiating EASO participation CH 22.5.
International Commission of Jurists publishes report critical of Maltese migrant detention policy; government calls report 'warped and unrealistic'
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Lampedusa still an 'unsafe port'
GC rescues a dozen migrants (from Libya?) eleven miles south-east of Lampedusa ANSA 11.5. |
poor weather conditions in the entire Mediterranean
Messina (Sicily): Police arrest 14 Egyptians and Italians suspected of organized migrant smuggling ANSA 16.5.
Bari (Apulia): Arrest by police of seven Egyptians and Tunisians suspected of organized migrant smuggling ANSA 15.5.
Bari (Apulia): Border police find a semi-conscious 18-year-old Afghan squeezed for 20 hours into the engine room of a Nissan space waggon arriving on a ferry from the Greek port of Patrasso; two Bulgarians arrested for migrant smuggling
Leuca (Apulia): 56 'Asian' migrants apprehended by police; apparently landed day before; human smuggling suspected
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Government reports 256 arrivals for May
73 migrants from Libya rescued by AFM in inclement weather 32 NM south of Malta; Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici warns of 'challenging summer'
93 Somali migrants, arriving at night in two groups, brought ashore by AFM patrol boats
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27 refugees from various African countries leave for the United States. US has resettled almost 900 Maltese mi-grants since 2007 ToM 16.5.
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Libyan and Tunisian defense ministers discuss closer cooperation in matters of border control and training TAP 19.5.
EU Commission publishes first biannual report on the functioning of the Schengen area (1.11.2011 - 30.4.2012)
Italian FM Giulio Terzi and Tunisian opposite Rafik Abdessalem sign 'strategic partner-ship' covering economic and security issues TAP 16.5..
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano received by his Tunisian counterpart on a two-day visit; meets family members of missing 'harragas'; discussion of migration problems TL 16.5. / ANSAmed 16.5. / Rep 16.5. TAP 16.5. / CdS 17.5.
Anna Maria Cancellieri, appearing before the Italian Senate's Human Rights Committee, announces second (six month) extension of temporary resi-dence permits for 25'000 Tunsians that arrived before 4 April 2011; subsequent arrivals to be repatriated
Tunisian court, on May 15, starts pro-ceedings against local migrant smuggler for organizing 30 March 2011 trip from Sfax to Italy with 15 missing FFM 28.5.
EU to discuss 'immigration partnership' with Tunisia & Morocco ANSAmed 15.5.
Publication of FRONTEX Fourth Quarter Report (FRAN Q4 2011) FRONTEX 15.5.
Catherine Ashton reports that the EU FM Council discussed migration manage-ment with a particular focus on Italy and Libya EUCL 14.5.
A deteriorating security situation in southern Libya threatens to increase illegal immigration into Europe from Africa, Libyan Foreign Minister Ashour bin Khayyal said during a visit to Rome. Giulio Terzi will raise issue on Monday at EU FM meeting ToM 13.5. / Rep 13.5. / LN 13.5.
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Ms Giusi Nicolini, an environmentalist, succeeds Bernardino de Rubeis as mayor of Lampedusa
Italian military vessel escorts a boat with 17 Tunisians into 'unsafe' Lampedusa harbor
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Mazara del Vallo (Sicily): 42 Tunisians intercepted by GdF 15 miles off the coast ANSA 10.5.
Gallipoli (Apulia): 7 Afghans arriving from Corfu rescued by the Leuca Capitaneria di Porto
Lecce (Apulia): Rescue by GC and GdF of 76 migrants in a sailing boat; Ukrainian trafficker involved ANSA 2.5.
Mazara del Vallo (Sicily): 79 North Africans intercepted by GdF; one Tunisian and 14 Egyptian traffickers arrested
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88 sSAfricans land at night near Golden Bay; three days at sea from Libya; eight fatalities reported
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Malta repatriates nine Nigerians by air, together with an unknown number of Italian migrants; the plane was chartered by FRONTEX and arrived from Perugia; during one month Malta has repatriated a total of 140 migrants
The Tunisian Secretary of State for Migration says that fingerprints of missing 'harragas' were sent to Italy but that the fate of many remains unclear TAP 10.5.
54 Egyptians who 'landed' last week in Malta repatriated by air ToM 4.5.
A group of Somalis kept at Lampedusa, some since early April, without being able to apply for asylum Rep 4.5.
Malta repatriates 44 Nigerian migrants by air with EU and Nigerian cooperation ToM 1.5.
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UNHCR figures: So far around 1400 mari-time migrants from Libya and Tunisia have reached Italy and Malta in 2012; a total of 81 victims reported UNHCR 8.5.
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