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Assets deployed in operation Triton involved in saving 3,000 migrants since Friday

Assets deployed in operation Triton involved in saving 3,000 migrants since Friday

2015-02-16

Since Friday, February 13, most of the vessels and planes deployed in joint operation Triton have been taking part in the rescue efforts that so far have helped save more than 3,000 migrants who departed from Libya.

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Migrants forced to board inflatable rafts at gunpoint

Migrants forced to board inflatable rafts at gunpoint

2015-02-12

Today the African migrants who survived the traumatic events off the coast of Libya told Frontex debriefing officers that smugglers who organised the operation forced them at gunpoint onto the inflatable rafts.

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Frontex Executive Director Saddened by Tragic Deaths of Migrants off Libyan Coast

Frontex Executive Director Saddened by Tragic Deaths of Migrants off Libyan Coast

2015-02-11

“I am deeply moved by this tragedy and outraged at the smugglers who are willing to put the lives of hundreds of people at the mercy of the rough seas...

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Dramatic rescue operation off the coast of Libya - 29 dead

Dramatic rescue operation off the coast of Libya - 29 dead

2015-02-10

On Monday night a rubber boat with 106 sub-Saharan migrants was rescued by the Italian Coast Guard, which conducted a dramatic search and rescue operation 120 NM from Lampedusa. 29 people, including three minors, died of hypothermia.

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Latest Trends at external borders of the EU

Latest Trends at external borders of the EU

2015-02-02

Although some data are still missing for De¬cember 2014, the number of detections of illegal border-crossing in 2014 as a whole to¬talled about 278 000. This is two and a half times larger than the year before (107 000) and twice as much as in 2011 (141 000) dur¬ing the initial stages of the Arab Spring.

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Fabrice Leggeri takes the helm at Frontex

Fabrice Leggeri takes the helm at Frontex

2015-01-16

Today Fabrice Leggeri started his five-year term as the Frontex Executive Director.The top post at Frontex is a home coming of sort for Leggeri, who as a national expert detached to the European Commission took active part in drafting an EU document that was endorsed in 2002

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