Thursday, October 3 once again a pleasure migrants capsized: there were 450 to 500 people
on board, 130 bodies were found, 150 survivor-es and more than 200 missing-es. Italian
leaders and throughout Europe resent even the Pope gets going, and newspapers make their
Morbid showing pictures of recovered bodies piling up at the port of Lampedusa. A national
day of mourning is scheduled for today in Italy. ---- But since 1998, nearly 20,000
migrants who are dead are in the Mediterranean Sea, their boats capsized or were sunk by
the Coast Guard with rifle bullets in the air or collisions. All means are good for the
power to prevent migrants from crossing borders. Recently several fishermen were sentenced
by Italian courts have rescued the migrants.
Statements of compassion "against this human drama" ensuing announcements of new measures
to further strengthen the monitoring of Mediterranean borders of Europe. For years cops
are increasing patrols and joint military between European and African countries, and
tools for monitoring ultra-sophisticated technology: radar, thermal imaging cameras, and
more recently drones. All still making the transition more difficult and dangerous.
On 7 October, a European meeting in Luxembourg is expected to strengthen eurosur system
for collaboration in the fight against illegal immigration between EU Member States and
the monitoring agency Frontex border: sharing of data (eg fingerprints) and real-time
information between various authorities and monitoring tools such as satellites or
reporting systems of ships through a network of protected communication. Last Tuesday in
Tripoli, Libya (to where the boat is gone) the Chiefs of Staff of Libyan and Italian
armies met in the framework of cooperation agreements between the two countries on how to
strengthen their relationship military, particularly in the fight against immigration and
border protection.
We learned there are a few hours alleged smuggler was arrested among the survivors. To
legitimize their little speech helped the leaders of their journalist friends, focus on
"smuggling mafias" and "terrorist networks" that encourage illegal immigration and drug
trafficking. The man arrested is a Tunisian recorded in Lampedusa there a few months and
who had been expelled. Those who talk at present of a human drama and claim to act are the
same people who kill increasingly strengthening monitoring and enforcement at the borders
of Europe.
We must do away with borders and states, for freedom!
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