ECHOES n.13 - CIVIL MRCC

HOLD TIGHT!

Summertime 2024: the frequency of civil fleet rescue cooperations in the Central Mediterranean is increasing again to almost a daily level. A Tunisian Search and Rescue Region is established to extend the EU push-back regime. After the Tories were voted out of office, the UK-Rwanda agreement is finally dead. The Meloni government counts on the Albania deal to deter people on the move from reaching Italian coasts. Repeatedly the administrative seizure of rescue ships by the Piantedosi decree is stopped by court decisions. Louise Michel is detained for another 20 days in Lampedusa. NGOs announce to get operative with two more rescue ships within next months… 

Still and again: contested spaces. Still and again: the movements of migration and the struggles for safe passages will continue! 

Since the beginning of the year 2024: 

• 29, 553 people have arrived to Italy and Malta by sea (UNHCR figures as of July 14) 
• 4,903 people were rescued by the civil fleet by more than 85 boats in distress (CMRCC figures until June 30) 
• 798 people are reported dead or missing on the Central Mediterranean Route (UNHCR figures as of July 14) 
• 10, 463 people were intercepted and returned to Libya by the EUsupported so-called Libyan Coast Guard (IOM figures as of July 13) 

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