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Rome (APA / DPA) – Italy is sending twelve more ships in support of the Libyan Coast Guard to prevent migrants from sailing across the Mediterranean. This announced the government in Rome on Monday night, according to the Ansa news agency. Already last year, Libya received four ships from Italy, plus the formation of the Libyan Coast Guard.
Libya is the main transit country for refugees who want to travel across the Mediterranean to Europe. After the overthrow of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, a civil war chaos reigns in this country of North Africa. However, the Coast Guard currently captures boats regularly in western Libya. According to Italian sources, it hosted about 10,000 migrants in six months
The new right-wing Lega government and the five populist stars pursue a harsh policy towards migrants and refuse to rescue organizations' ships the arrival of Italian ports. In particular, Matteo Salvini, the Minister of the Interior of Italian Lega, is improving the non-governmental organizations that he considers to be aiding traffickers
According to local authorities, 63 people disappear in a sinking of a refugee boat off the Libyan coast. 104 people were embarked, said Tuesday evening the news agency of General Ajub Kacem. 41 refugees were saved.
Kacem relies on survivor reports. The boat with the refugees on board was therefore Sunday under. The accident occurred off the coast of Garabulli, about 50 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli. The 41 survivors wore life jackets.
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