The Libyan Coast Guard beating some shipwrecked people. These are the images from the Sea Watch video documenting the arrival of the Libyan military on the Maridive merchant ship to have around 60 migrants delivered. The castaways had been rescued by the merchant ship and were on deck at the time of the attack.
The Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat, “gifted by Italy”, had a group of migrants handed over “in a brutal way”, observes Sea Watch, posting the images taken from its Seabird plane. These actions, the NGO underlines, “are illegal under international and national Italian law. Europe holds conferences on democracy and human rights, but finances this violent behavior against people on the move. The EU does not care about their lives. It prevents these people from reaching European shores by any means.” Meanwhile, the landings of migrants in Lampedusa continue.
A total of 194 migrants arrived today. Two small boats with 18 and 28 people on board (Egyptians, Syrians, Bangladeshis, Sudanese and Somalis) arrived in Punta Sottile. The migrants left Tripoli paying 2 thousand dollars each, others from Sabratha, paying 5 thousand dollars. On the other three boats, rescued by the patrol boats of the Captaincy and the financial police, there were 45, 55 and 48 Ivorians, Guineans and Gambians who left from Sfax and Nabeul, in Tunis.
Just today one arrived on the migrant front news from the Interior Ministry, with the new decree which increases flexibility regarding asylum. For foreigners who apply for asylum, the deposit ranges from 2,500 to 5 thousand euros, determined “without delay by the police commissioner”, with an evaluation “on a case-by-case basis and taking into account the individual situation of the foreigner. The decree of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi , published in the Official Journal, modifies the ministerial decree of 14 September 2023, “in order to ensure flexibility in the provision of the financial guarantee also from a subjective point of view, based on a case-by-case assessment”. ago, the amount for the provision of the financial guarantee was set at 4,938 euros and was expected to be provided “within the deadline in which the photodactyloscopic and signal detection operations are carried out”.
The new decree establishes the deadline “within seven working days starting from the communication of the amount determined by the police commissioner”, with the possibility that it be “provided for a period of twenty-eight days, also by relatives of the foreigner in a direct or collateral line within the third degree , regularly residing in Italy or in another European Union state”. To determine the amount of the guarantee, the commissioner “evaluates, in particular, the degree of collaboration provided by the foreigner in the identification procedures, which can be deduced from the documentation, including electronic ones, exhibited or from the declarations made by the same”.
Among these are indicated the declination of one’s personal details and the indication of the citizenship held; a copy of identity or travel documents or a copy of any other document certifying identity or citizenship and capable of facilitating identification; the documented indication of the place of origin or residence in the country of origin; the description of the methods and itineraries of the trip undertaken and of any organisers; the indication of the personal details of the relatives, as well as the place, address or telephone number where they can be found in Italy. And finally the indication of the address of the place, in Italy, where he intends to stay or the personal details and telephone number of anyone who is available to offer him hospitality in Italy.
