ECHOES 11 - CIVIL MRCC

Detaining Civil Fleet Ships means: let more people die at sea ….

Italian courts are apparently asserting their independence. For Albania or Iuventa, in Catania or in Brindisi, on a legal level, Meloni, Piantedosi & Co. have suffered severe setbacks in recent weeks. At the same time, Italian authorities continue to misuse administrative measures to detain rescue ships in even more arbitrary ways. They know they will lose again on a legal level, but they try to win, or, better formulated, to weaponize time: to let more people on the move drown or get pushbacked as a policy of deterrence. It is therefore all the more important that solidarity with and between the civil fleet actors remains strong.

Since the beginning of the year 2024:

• 7,516 people arrived to Italy by boat, a significant number of whom

arrived autonomously (UNHCR figures as of March 17)

• 1,186 people were rescued by the civil fleet from more than 180 boats in

distress (CMRCC figures)

• 195 people who fled via the Central Mediterranean are reported dead or missing. Those figures do not take into account invisible shipwrecks (UNHCR figures as of February 29)

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