AYS News Digest 10/10/22: Serbian Interior Minister calls migrants ‘scum’ after makeshift camp raids
Greece has called for Turkey to stop allowing asylum seekers to depart from Turkish shores/15 bodies found on a beach in Libya after an altercation between two trafficking gangs/Sea Watch International reports on a boat carrying 50 people pulled back to Libya/ No Borders Team on Tour — Fight Fortress Europe/Front-Lex takes FRONTEX to court/Information on travel documents for Refugees in Greece/Serbia’s interior minister, Aleksandar Vulin, has referred to migrants as ‘scum’/and much more…
FRONTEX
No Borders Team on tour — Fight Fortress Europe
Front-Lex takes Frontex to court
The NGO has filed a case against Frontex’s new Executive Director Aija Kalnaja at the Court of Justice of the European Union.
They claim the EU Border and Coast Guard agency must terminate or suspend its joint operations with the Hellenic Coast Guard in the Aegean Sea Region due to countless horrific human rights abuses related to these operations.
GREECE
Greece has called for Turkey to stop allowing asylum seekers to depart from Turkish shores
Notis Mitarachi used the recent shipwrecks that cost the lives of 23 people last week to argue that Turkey needed to prevent people from making the journey across the Aegean. He claimed the Hellenic Coast Guard is working hard, and for as long as Turkey does not abide by the agreements they have signed, more people will die in the Aegean.
There is obviously no mention of Greece’s role in the high death rates in the Aegean.
Information on Travel Documents for Refugees in Greece:
SERBIA
Serbia’s interior minister, Aleksandar Vulin, has referred to migrants as ‘scum’.
Our country did not cause and is in no way responsible for the migrant crisis, and (it) will not be a parking lot for migrants, and especially not a place for scum and bandits — Aleksander Vulin, Interior Minister
He has vowed to crack down on smugglers as he visited a makeshift camp near the Hungarian border. He posted a video of police raiding a makeshift camp near the Hungarian border.
The video shows mobile phones and cash being siezed, despite the Minister claiming they had siezed weapons.
These raids are not new in Serbia; there have been a multitude of raids in different areas in Serbia, such as in Belgrade and Subotica. In the months of March and April 2022, raids took place on an almost daily basis in Subotica.
You can watch a short video posted by NoNameKitchen here: https://www.facebook.com/reel/767615651003757
POLAND
No Borders Team posted about a group of Congolese individuals who were beaten and sent back to Belarus:
ITALY
Campobello di Mazara migrant camp — ‘unsanitary no man’s land’
The camp is exceptionally dangerous, police do not even go into the camp. There is little to no organisation and very limited infrastructure. The conditions are inhumane, with very little access to electricity and water.
GERMANY
Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, has called for a stop to deportations to Iran
Within the current context, where authorities are violently cracking down on peaceful protests, Germany’s interior minister insisted Germany should take responsibility of stopping deportations to Iran and standing in solidarity with Iranian protesters.
Josefine Paul, the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Flight and Integration has announced a halt on deportations:
North Rhine-Westphalia stands in solidarity with the Iranians who campaign for women’s rights, for freedom of expression and assembly, and against torture and the death penalty. But we also continue to rely on a nationwide solution. I expect that the federal government and the federal states will quickly decide on a coordinated approach.
So far in 2022, 31 people have been deported to Iran.
FRANCE
As many as 1065 people crossed the English channel on Sunday 9/10
The Channel is one of the most dangerous and busiest shipping lanes in the world, making it a highly precarious and risky sea to cross.
SEA/SAR
15 bodies found on a beach in Libya
Most of the group had been burned in a charred boat, which the UN mission in Libya believes to be the act of smugglers.
The individuals had been shot after an altercation between two rival trafficking gangs. The boat was then set on fire.
Sea Watch International reports on a boat carrying 50 people pulled back to Libya
Louise Michel ports without permission due to critical circumstances onboard
The Louise Michel ship rescued 48 individuals in the Mediterranean. They then contacted the Italian authorities, as well as other European authorities, for a safe port.
The situation became critical onboard, as passengers became more and more distressed. A few jumped off the boat in an attempt to swim to shore, and others tried to follow them.
The psychological capacities of our already traumatised guests were so intensively overstretched with the wait for a safe port for the fifth day in a row, and witnessing three boats being rescued by Italian coastguard, that three people tried to jump and swim towards them. — A Crew Member
The ship ended up trying to disembark at a port without permission. They luckily received permission as they were arriving at the port.
WORTH READING:
- Discussion Paper — Getting Stuck En Route “From Dayton to Brussels”: EU Conditionality as an Obstacle to Accession
- Global Detention Project — The GDP and the International Refugee Rights Association Submit Freedom of Information Requests to Türkiye’s Presidency of Migration Management
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