Boat accident off Lampedusa in 2013

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October 3rd accident

On October 3, 2013, a major boat accident occurred off Lampedusa . A 20-meter-long cutter loaded with around 545 refugees from Somalia and Eritrea sank off the coast of the island of Lampedusa and came from the Libyan port city of Misrata . The Italian coast guard and local fishermen rescued 155 survivors. 366 people are known to have died.

Legal processing

The Italian public prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the survivors for illegal immigration . During their interrogations, the Italian police and public prosecutor's office found that a large group of migrants from Eritrea had been held and tortured by militia officers and smugglers to extort ransom in a concentration camp-like internment camp in Sabha, Libya . Women who couldn't pay the ransom were raped . The Tunisian captain was arrested for multiple willful manslaughter and average . The investigation began shortly after the boat crash. The Ethiopian Ermias Ghermay is said to have sent the overcrowded boats across the Mediterranean. His “customers” were mainly refugees from North Africa and Somalia. Telephone calls tapped by the Italian authorities show that by the time they were discovered he had sent at least 8,000 asylum seekers to Italy on boats. He is said to have bribed security guards and prison officials in Libya for this. The refugees were crammed into camps until they left with organized boats. Armed militias guarded the people. Some of the smugglers caught the refugees in the Libyan desert and lured the desperate people with great promises. The refugees' valuables were repeatedly robbed by the smugglers.

Ermias Ghermay is considered the most powerful human trafficker in North Africa and is wanted by Europol. Through his activities he earned around 70 million Swiss francs, wrote the Catholic newspaper " Avvenire ". By the end of 2014, Ermias Ghermay had his brother Asghedom Ghermay stationed in Sicily. He was arrested, but colleagues from smugglers quickly followed and filled his position.

In July 2015, a court in Agrigento sentenced the boatman to 18 years in prison for human trafficking and causing a maritime disaster.

October 11th accident

On October 11, 2013, another major accident occurred off Lampedusa. In the Maltese sea rescue zone, a refugee ship on the way from the Libyan coastal town of Zuwara to Lampedusa got into distress and 268 people, including many women and children, drowned. 212 people were rescued by the Italian and Maltese navies . Calls for help from the refugees had previously been improperly handled by the Italian and Maltese Maritime Rescue Coordination Center , so that rescue workers etc. a. the Italian ITS Libra, only 50 km away, only arrived after capsizing.

Legal processing

Italian prosecutors charged two Italian officers with negligent homicide. On December 3, 2019, a criminal trial for negligent multiple homicides is due to begin against the on-duty heads of the sea rescue center of the Italian Coast Guard and the Italian naval operation.

be right

Archbishop Reinhard Marx said: "Even if Europe cannot accept everyone, we must not let anyone die at the borders."

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to act: The international community must prevent such events. It is important to protect the human rights of the refugees.

consequences

A heated discussion on refugee policy began in the European Union, and Italy launched the Mare Nostrum surveillance operation on October 18, 2013 , which was presented five times larger than its predecessor, Constant Vigilance, as a humanitarian sea rescue operation.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Trafficker gets 18 years in jail over Italian shipwreck that killed 366 migrants . Guardian, July 2, 2015, accessed July 25, 2018
  3. ^ Tilmann Kleinjung, BR : Criminal offense: illegal immigration. tagesschau.de , October 7, 2013, archived from the original on September 1, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  4. ^ Lampedusa shipwreck migrants 'raped by traffickers' . Telegraph November 8, 2013, accessed October 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Jan-Christoph Kitzler, BR : More than 270 bodies recovered. tagesschau.de , October 8, 2013, archived from the original on January 8, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3050212/The-millionaire-people-smugglers-laughed-heard-hundreds-died.html
  7. ↑ http://www.blick.ch/news/ausland/ermias-ghermay-verdiente-schon-70-millionen-am-elend-der-mittelmeer-fluechtlinge-jagd-auf-den-chef-schlepper-id4075793.html
  8. ↑ Neil Camilleri: October 11, 2013 tragedy: Italian prosecutors seek manslaughter charges for two Italian officers . Independent, December 18, 2017, accessed July 24, 2018.
  9. ^ Neil Camilleri: December trial for Italian officers charged over 11 October 2013 migrant tragedy . Malta Independent September 17, 2019, accessed September 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ The Mediterranean becomes a cemetery , the daily newspaper , October 12, 2013. Accessed on October 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ Ban: International community must prevent refugee tragedies like the one in Lampedusa , Deutschlandradio , October 13, 2013.
  12. ↑ Paolo Cuttita: Humanitarism and Migration in the Mediterrenean Border Landscape: The Italian-North African Border between Sea Patrols and Integration Measures . In Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making . Ed .: Brambilla, Laine and Bocchi, Rootledge 2016, ISBN 978-1-4724-5146-0 , p. 161