(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #251 - Mediterranean:
Death at the gates of Europe (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The deaths of migrants trying to reach Europe by sea have increased in recent months, but
policymakers do nothing to resist the disaster. Yet the solution exists: the freedom of
movement. ---- The announcement of the 3700 rescue migrants and migrant, during the day of
May 2, reflects the dramatic number of castaways who perished in the waters of the
Mediterranean in recent years. A sea transformed into a gigantic mass grave that would
have engulfed more than 20 000 people during the past two decades, according to the UNHCR
(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). ---- These dramas, denounced a long time,
have continued to increase as the European security policy was reinforced. Frontex
successive operations have forced more and more migrants and migrants to cross the
Mediterranean to reach Europe, diverting safer roads. The explosion of crossings from
Libya responds to the growing scarcity of points of entry and market law requires,
generated a lucrative human trafficking which Europe is largely responsible.
After the operation Mare Nostrum which allowed the rescue of more than 100 000 people
without financial aid, Italy stops the operation. Frontex takes over with "Triton 'means a
surveillance operation of a fleet of small vessels unsuitable for collecting hundreds of
passengers.
It will take another tragedy - yet predictable - for the Foreign Ministers and Interior EU
countries met with great fanfare on 23 April. But last 800 deaths still not enough to
change its policy. If in a hurry, she triple the budget of Triton and some charters
additional vessels for rescue at sea, it strengthens the security arsenal and condemned
the survivors to detention, the repression, the deportation. No host agreement shared
between the refugee-es 28 countries has emerged and Italy, like Greece, will continue to
take care of herself.
While the chatter continues on whether the rescue territorial waters complies with
international rights, if the destruction of tubs smugglers is legal or if the home of
several hundred refugees by one of the 28 countries will do "call air, "men, women and
children fleeing poverty and war continue to be killed in the waters of the Mediterranean
(2,000 since the beginning of the year, UNHCR estimate). To stop the carnage, it will be
necessary that Europe accepts the inevitable and legitimate given what she migration and
restore freedom of movement for all.
For now, a hundred associations and unions are mobilizing around the slogan "Bridges, not
walls", demanding minimum humanitarian measures, however, will have opportunities to be
heard at the cost of national mobilizations and massive international.
Chloe (G 93)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Mediterranee-La-mort-aux-portes-de
