(en) Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Lampedusa: Murderous borders of Europe (fr)

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.


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