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THE PYLOS SHIPWRECK
Investigation by Forensic Architecture “On 14 June 2023, the Adriana, a boat leaving Libya for Italy with hundreds of migrants on board, sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the Mediterranean Sea. This would become the deadliest…
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EVERYTHING IS IN MOTION
Tunisian lessons on Lampedusa and ambivalences of an open situation in the Mediterranean “The goal is for the Mediterranean to be a calmer sea, said the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of signing the memorandum of…
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“SAR 3”: A FAST-DEVELOPING REGION FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE
In the previous edition of ECHOES, we highlighted the growing concerns regarding a potential collaboration between Italy and Eastern Libya, which could lead to an anticipated increase in pullback operations within the “SAR3” region. Shortly after the visit of the…
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MAY 2023
1 May After Alarm Phone received and forwarded several distress calls to authorities and NGO‘s, the Geo Barents (Médecins Sans Frontières) is able to rescue 299 people from a huge overcrowded fishing vessel and 36 people from a small fiberglass…
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JUNE 2023
1 June The Mare*Go performs her first rescue of 36 people who tried to reach Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered to disembark the survivors in Trapani which is a day of sailing away. For not complying but instead disembarking the survivors…
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“IF WE STAY HERE, WE ARE GOING TO DIE”
Struggles of Refugees in Tunisia The Refugees in Tunisia protesting in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Tunis, March 2023 On April 11th 2023, the refugees and migrants who were carrying out a sit-in in front of the offices of…
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MORIA 6 – JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
Updates on the trials and a new investigation by Forensic Architecture on the fire in Moria “The appeal trial of four of the Moria 6 originally scheduled to take place on 6 March 2023, was postponed for a year by…
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“TUNISIA IS NEITHER A SAFE COUNTRY NOR A PLACE OF SAFETY FOR THOSE RESCUED AT SEA”
Joint Statement signed by 69 Civil Search And Rescue Organizations and migrant solidarity networks 17 April 2023 We, the undersigned organisations, issue this statement to remind once again that Tunisia is neither a safe country of origin nor a safe…
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ITALY: REAL AND APPARENT CONTRADICTIONS IN A CONTESTED SPACE
As accustomed as we are to the bizarre, inappropriate and sometimes offensive statements of the Italian Minister of the Interior, the sentence pronounced by Matteo Piantedosi last March 25th in front of the ‘School of Political Education’ of the racist…
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WE KINDLY REQUEST YOU TO STOP KILLING
Join the Alarm Phone non-stop performance in Brussels! We, the Alarm Phone Creative-Action-Group, invite you to our first action. “We kindly request you to stop killing” is an attempt to deal with the systemic indifference we face in matters of…
