The sinking of an overladen trawler off Greece’s coast is thought to be the second-most deadly migrant shipwreck in the world’s most perilous migration route
of an overladen trawler off Greece’s coast on June 14th is thought to be the second-most deadly migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the world’s most perilous migration route. So far 81 bodies have been recovered; 104 people have been rescued. According to the’s human-rights agency, up to 500 people from the vessel bound for Italy are still missing. Only the capsizing of a vessel off the Libyan coast in April 2015 cost more lives .
Small boats setting off from Tunisia or western Libya usually aim to reach Sicily, Malta or the Italian island of Lampedusa and are often fragile. The vessel involved in the latest disaster, however, left from the eastern Libyan port of Tobruk and was probably heading for Sicily or the southern Italian mainland. Those routes are significantly longer and require bigger, more seaworthy boats.
In the past 12 months traffic across the Mediterranean has increased, alarming governments in southern Europe. In 2022 34,600 migrants had crossed the sea by the end of May. In the first five months of this year 65,000 made the journey. Although the number of arrivals is rising, it is far below the level reached in 2015 and 2016, when hundreds of thousands of Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis fled from conflicts at home.
A second factor has been the gradual re-establishment of conditions in Libya favourable to people smuggling. The criminal networks that profit from irregular migration need the protection of the militias that control much of the country. And co-operation between militias can be essential if migrants have to be moved from the territory of one into that of another.
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