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Artwork of “Porta d’Europa” and Lampedusa Cemetery, 2022. Photo: Alarm Phone We, civil organisations engaged in search and rescue (SAR) activities in the central Mediterranean Sea, express our gravest concerns regarding the latest attempt by a European government to obstruct assistance to people in distress at sea. A new law decree, signed by the Italian […]
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Last GPS position the Alarm Phone received from the boat. Photo: Alarm Phone Only three survivors have been located on the cliffs of Tan-tan, Morocco and at least 50 people are dead or missing. The lack of assistance to people in distress by the Moroccan authorities for 12 days and with poor coordination with the […]
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Last GPS position the Alarm Phone received from the boat. Photo: Alarm Phone Only three survivors have been located on the cliffs of Tan-tan, Morocco and at least 50 people are dead or missing. The lack of assistance to people in distress by the Moroccan authorities for 12 days and with poor coordination with the […]
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Ελληνικά παρακάτω In the morning of Friday, December 15, 2022, a two-month-old baby died on the island of Lesvos. Alarm Phone was informed about the shipwreck of the group that the baby was with, and forwarded the alert to authorities and other actors – just like several times before when people in need of rescue […]
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Maria died on an islet in the Evros river. Maria was only 5 years old. She died as a consequence of the brutalisation along the Turkish-Greek land border. “So the adults killed you too, right?”, August/September 2022. Drawing: Anonymous. On 9 August 2022, Maria died on an islet in the Evros river. She was only […]
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This morning news again broke that people have drowned in the Channel after a rubber dinghy with approximately 47 people onboard appears to have broken apart at sea. Details of the event are still emerging, but the location of the initial search and rescue operation – on the border line separating British and French territorial […]
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Today, 2 December, 100 activists from Alarm Phone hung 12 banners with lights on bridges along the Amsterdam Light Festival route. With texts like “Bridges not Borders,” “No One is Illegal” and “Break Down Deadly Borders,” the activists criticize European and Dutch migration policies. Founded in 2014 as a 24/7 hotline for people on the […]
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Funeral on Crete. Photo: Private source In September 2022, after leaving from Lebanon, a boat carrying 60 people reached out to the Alarm Phone. Despite being alerted, various European authorities, including Frontex, failed to act in a swift and coordinated way. Due to their non-assistance, the people were left at sea for several days. This […]
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Photo: Felice Rosa The Mediterranean Sea has returned the bodies of the victims of the shipwreck of a boat which left from Zarzis, in the South of Tunisia, in mid-September. The families of the citizens of the city demand dignity for all, practical engagement from the authorities in the search for the remaining bodies missing […]
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Violent pushback over a distance of ~460 km, from West of Peloponnese to Turkey On September 1, the Alarm Phone was alerted to a boat carrying approx. 85 people who were in distress West of Tainaro Cape, Peloponnese, on their way to Italy. The people were calling for help and Greek authorities were immediately informed […]
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