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Saving lives is not a crime
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaLast Saturday in the harbour of Pozzallo around a hundred people participated in the protest organised in solidarity with the crew of the Spanish NGO ship Pro Activa Open Arms.
Human Rights Increasingly Under Attack
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaBorderline Sicilia expresses its deepest concern in the face of the accusations put by the public prosecutor of Catania against the Spanish organisation Pro Activa Open Arms. The ship that carried out the rescue operation landed yesterday at the port of Pozzallo and was seized by local authorities.
Borderline Sicilia On Board the Sea Watch 3: The Intervention of the Libyan Coast Guard Brings Death and Refoulment
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaPress release – The landing operation of the Sea Watch 3 at the port of Pozzallo came to a close this morning at midday. Police, carabinieri, Frontex and EASO agents were waiting on the quayside, as well as staff from the main governmental organisations and NGOs active in Sicily. There were also workers and legal […]
Migrants’ routes: Online Map Assembled with Stories, amongst Torture and Abuse
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaRedattoresociale.it – It is called Esodi and it was conducted by Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU), which have put together the stories of more than 2600 people that have travelled across the desert, lived through the atrocities of Libyan prisons and crossed the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Barbieri: ‘Not only numbers. We want to raise […]
Young People, Little Protection: From Landing to Turning Eighteen. The Situation in Some Centres in Eastern Sicily
/in Catania/Mineo, Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaFor a few months, the Hotspot at Pozzallo has included a container for “welcoming” children and families. A space is “dedicated” to those who are meant to only be passing through the Hotspot after the landing, but in reality they are frequently illegally and lengthily detained, a fact which has now become “normal and inevitable.” […]
After The Landing, Human Rights On Hold: The Case Of The Extraordinary Reception Centre at Rosolini
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo, Syracuse /by Borderline SiciliaMohamed and Ahmed (not their real names) arrived in Sicily on the first of July. The Swedish ship BKV 002 to which they were transferred while still at sea brought them into the port of Catania along with 650 other migrants and 9 bodies. “It was extraordinary to think that just one step more and […]
“They Leave As People, They Arrive As Ghosts” Shipwrecks And Push-Backs At Sea. Italy Closes The Doors, Including To Those Who Manage To Arrive
/in Catania/Mineo, Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaOn June 12th a Swedish ship belonging to Frontex landed at Catania, with 356 migrants on board and 8 bodies. The survivors spoke of a dozen missing and the collapse of their rubber boat, packed with people far beyond its capacity. Only a few days later, a group of Sudanese migrants reported a boat which […]
Breaking the Silence
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaPozzallo, Augusta, Catania, Lampedusa, Palermo: people continue to arrive in Sicily, crossing the sea from Libya. In the bays of the coastline, the rescue missions continue, as do the shipwrecks and death. Migrants are dying in the freezer trucks which transport them like the cargo they have become from the deserts to the Libyan coast, […]
Pozzallo: Money For Migrants Used By The Local Council For Everything From Fixing the Gym to Paying Overtime
/in Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaFrom MeridioNews.it The public prosecutor in Ragusa has requested the indictment of six members of staff at a migrant reception centre. All of them are being investigated for fraud and embezzlement of public funds. They are accused of requesting inflated expenses: only 700 toilet rolls were bought instead of 50,000; the floor mats ended […]
Deaths at the Border. Control and Repression Replacing Reception
/in Catania/Mineo, Ragusa/Pozzallo, Syracuse /by Borderline Sicilia“Four survivors from a ship packed with 193 people”. “The numbers of missing are imprecise, but in the hundreds.” “Eight bodies but a massacre feared”. By now we do not speak about the dead, but those who did “not survive”, making calculations by exclusion. It is increasingly difficult to know how many people continue to […]