40 results for "lampedusa"
2013-10-04
General characteristicsThis route refers to irregular migration coming from Northern Africa towards Italy and Malta across the Mediterranean Sea. Here, Libya often acts as nexus point where migrants from the Horn of Africa and Western African routes meet before embarking on their journey towards the EU. Until 2011, with its relatively prosperous economy, Libya offered good job opportunities for migrant workers from other African countries who either used it as a destination country or as a ...
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2011-01-01
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q1_2011.pdf (717.1 KB) For the first time since data collection began in 2008, detections of illegal border-crossings in the first quarter of the year exceeded those for the preceding quarter. This was almost exclusively due to a massive influx of illegal immigration at the Italian island of Lampedusa, where some 20 000 Tunisian nationals were detected during Q1 2011. As a result this was also the first quarter in which a Member State ...
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2024-05-13
Smuggled goods discovered during a roadshow, cleaning a littered beach, training boarding vessels, and detecting stolen vehicles – these are just a couple of examples of our officers’ successes in April. Find out last month’s stories from the field! Smuggled cigarettes and undeclared money in Italy It was intended as a training activity. But many things can happen when theory is put into practice with sheer determination. Cigarettes hidden in specially designed hiding places everywhere in a car ...
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2015-05-31
Copyrights: Belgian Navy Since Friday, 29 May more than 5000 migrants were saved in the Central Mediterranean. British, Maltese, Belgian and Italian vessels and Icelandic and Finnish planes deployed in EU operation Triton coordinated by Frontex were fully engaged in this rescue effort.“This is the biggest wave of migrants we have seen in 2015”, said Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri. “The new vessels that joined operation Triton this week have already saved hundreds of people”, he ...
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2015-06-09
Credits: Swedish Coast Guard Last weekend some 5600 migrants were rescued in the Central Mediterranean with assistance of Spanish, Swedish, Maltese and British vessels deployed in operation Triton. Out of the 32 Search and Rescue operations launched by the Italian and Maltese SAR authorities since Friday, 22 operations are still on-going. All aircraft and vessels coordinated by Frontex were fully deployed.While most activities took place South of Sicily, an Icelandic airplane and a British ...
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2013-10-02
I felt that my feet were wet. I didn’t think much of it at first. Then there was shouting. Two men started fighting. I didn’t know what was happening.” Samuel, 23, is an Eritrean migrant in Lampedusa. “Half an hour later, the water was over my feet. People were using everything they had to get the water out. Women were crying. Even men were crying. Some were praying. I was praying. I really thought I was going to die.” Samuel’s story is far from unique. Having paid a smuggler for passage by sea ...
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2012-01-18
Frontex Publishes Analysis of Migratory Trends at the EU External Borders for Q3, 2011 Warsaw, 18 January 2012 – Over 38 000 migrants were detected crossing illegally into the EU in the third quarter of 2011 (Q3), which constitutes an 11% increase in comparison to the same period last year. Consistent with recent trends the majority of migrants entered the EU in a small number of hotspots such as land border between Greece and Turkey in the Evros region and the Italian island of Lampedusa in ...
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2008-11-27
On 25 November 2008, an open debate on the role of human rights in training of European border guards took place in Prague. With participation of Gil Arias - Frontex Deputy Executive, Angela Li Rosi from UNHCR, Peter Schatzer from IOM and Guy Schmit from ICMPD, the debate focused on the best ways of including human rights in training of border guards in the EU Members States. The participants shared their experience in providing training of law enforcement bodies across the world, quoting ...
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2019-06-24
Last week, Frontex aircraft detected a suspicious fishing trawler towing a smaller boat. The boat was empty, but something caught the attention of the agency’s experts. Frontex kept observing the boat for several hours, and all of a sudden people started to emerge from below the deck. A people smuggler jumped on the smaller boat encouraging a group of migrants to follow him. When all 81 migrants boarded the smaller boat, the mother ship was detached and started sailing south while the small ...
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2015-04-08
Italian authorities rescued 2 400 migrants who left Libya on wooden fishing boats and rubber dinghies ahead of the Easter holiday last week, including 318 migrants rescued by Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Týr taking part in the Frontex-coordinated Joint Operation Triton.The migrants took advantage of a brief window of favourable weather starting at the beginning of April to venture out in hopes of reaching the Italian coast.“Once again a vessel participating in the Frontex-coordinated Triton ...
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