Description
Added on the 15/06/2023 20:32:10 - Copyright : France 24 EN
As record numbers of migrants continue to arrive on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, FRANCE 24 looks back at the shipwreck of 2013, which saw 368 people drown off the island. Our reporters met a witness to the tragedy, a survivor and the island's doctor who registered the deaths. All of them want to put an end to these shipwrecks, which have made the Mediterranean the deadliest migrant route in the world.
At least 59 people including a baby and other children have died after a boat attempting to land them in southern Italy broke up and sank
A memorial was held tonight in the French port of Calais after 27 migrants drowned trying to cross those 34 kilometres of icy water to England. You'll hear grandstanding between Johnson and Macron, but the two sides have cooperated for years over this border. Both sides blame smugglers, but why the recent spike in crossings? And how to protect the human rights of those who risk their lives without opening the floodgates to uncontrolled migration?
After an all-too avoidable calamity, how to assist survivors from Libya’s dam bursts without lining the pockets of those who failed? As the UN estimates the death toll from the Derna disaster at 4,000 killed and another 9,000 missing, we ask about the years of neglect, the unheeded warning signs that Storm Daniel was coming, and in a nation effectively split in two, how channeling the relief the tragedy might in fact help the strongman who controls eastern Libya.
Greece's coastguard has found three more bodies during a search for survivors after last week's tragedy in which it's believed hundreds of people drowned off the country's southern coast. The bodies were found in the sea west of the Peloponnese peninsula, the area where the overloaded trawler capsized and sank. Only 104 people were rescued while UN officials say up to 500 people are still missing, and all this as we mark World Refugee Day this Tuesday; honouring the tens of millions of people forced to flee their homes to escape conflict or persecution. FRANCE 24's correspondent Nathalie Savaricas from Athens has more.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
