Migrants. New tragedy off Cyprus: at least 19 dead, 25 missing

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18 July 2018 New tragedy off Cyprus: 19 migrants have died, 25 have disappeared. That's what the Turkish media reported. From the first rumors on the boat, there were about 160 people.

According to the Anadolu agency, the sinking took place off the town of Gialousa. The searches of the missing are still in progress. Cyprus, a member of the European Union and a hundred kilometers from the Syrian coast, has never been a preferred landing destination for Syrian refugees such as Turkey and Greece. About 1,700 migrants reached the Cypriot coast by sea in September 2014.

The boat carrying undocumented migrants sinks off N.Cyprus https://t.co/UDr7RilxxE pic.twitter.com/ abdQnFUfE

– ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) July 18, 2018

Ship with 40 embarked migrants from days off in Tunisia
A Tunisian gas ship, which rescued a quarantine of migrants, is located off Tunisia for several days. The crew reports that Tunisia, Italy and Malta have denied docking in their ports

Orfini: the endless barbarism
On the case the national president of the Democratic Party Assembly, Matteo Orfini, spoke with a tweet saying: "Another ship, the # Sarost5, wandered for days on the beach after rescuing 40 migrants, the food ends, there is also a wounded and a pregnant woman on board, but Malta, Tunisia and Italy do barbarity continues #apriteiporti "

Salvini-Open Arms Collision
Tension on the migrant chapter remains high after the violent clash yesterday between the Open Arms and the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini The latter had invited – according to his social profiles – two Spanish ships Ong not to land in Italy: "Our ports see them as postcards. "Open Arms had taken note of the government's new ultimatum talian then – in the early afternoon – post a video on the social profile in which it is said that the Libyan Coast Guard in a rescue operation has left a woman and a child dead. And it's only thanks to their intervention that another woman, Josephine, remained hanging on a table for 48 hours. he was saved. From there, the clash became increasingly tight. Salvini – still relies on social media – and replies, speaking of "lies, even false news". These images do not leave indifferent the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Danilo Tonineli, that the studies of Rainews24 qualify as "terrible" this morning, but for that "we must convince ourselves to go forward, we must not leave the boats Toninelli invokes – so as not to let them go – the creation of "transit centers in Libya shared with UNHCR and other countries" and insists that "people must be saved but then relocated. "Then he adds: -" We are saving lives, our Coast Guard has saved so much and we will continue to do so, but we can not do it alone. We are opening ports, but it is not up to us to open them. "

The Minister adds:" We can not forget that the Libyan Coast Guard saved 158 people yesterday and that the Coast Guard is also born thanks to Italy. In the meantime, we give them twelve patrol boats, ways to intervene first and save lives. ". Mr. Toninelli acknowledged that there was a problem of respect for human rights for migrants pbading through Libya: "I met with UNHCR (the United Nations Organization). who takes care of the refugees) who is present in Libya, we need a control to maintain levels of humanity ".

Open Arms directed to the Spanish coast
"We decided to direct our ship to the Spanish coast". This was announced by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, who asked the Spanish Coast Guard Coordination Center to take control of the operation carried out yesterday in the Mediterranean, in which he rescued a woman to drifting for two days without the life of a woman and a child. The NGO explained that the demand "is due to the fact that we believe that the landing in an Italian port" badigned by the authorities to 23.04 yesterday with a communication of Catania presents many critical factors. "The first, explains Open Arms," ​​is represented from the statements of the Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, who defined the lies and insults of the documents we have offered through the publication of images tragic events in the maritime zone where the Libyan Coast Guard had already intervened. "

Allo the Spanish NGO continues," it is incomprehensible "the Italian disposition to accommodate the woman" rescued in a state of severe hypothermia "accompanied by the refusal to receive the two corpses found, and the announcement of a "counter-investigation" on the events that took place at sea "make us fear for the protection of the surviving woman and her complete freedom to testify in conditions of tranquility and peace." security. "

Salvini: Open Arms has something to hide?
Salvini questions about the decision of Open Arms to go to Spain. And from Twitter's profile, he attacks: "do they have anything to hide?"

Despite our availability of Sicilian ports, the NGO goes to Spain, with a wounded woman and two dead …
They do not have to … will not hide anything ??? Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) 18 July 2018

The European Commission enne in contact with Libya after an accident
After the accusations launched by the founder of the NGO Proactiva, Oscar Camps, on the role of the Libyan Coast Guard in the sinking discovered by the Open Arms, with the recovery of a woman and two bodies yesterday, the European Commission decided to review the incident and contact the Libyan authorities. "Every life lost is one too many," said a spokesman for the European Commission: "we have seen the news in the media and we are looking at the incident, in contact with the Libyan authorities".

in Brussels of the Political and Security Committee of the EU. On the table, among the various themes, the government's request Conte to change the mission of Sophia, so that our country is no longer the only stop for migrants.