According to the deputy director of operations of SOS Méditerranée, invited on France Inter, the number of migrant departures from the entire Libyan coast and Tunisia is exploding.
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“We call for [la création d’une] European search and rescue force for immediate deployment in the Mediterranean”indicates Thursday, June 15 to France Inter Louise Guillaumat, deputy director of operations of SOS Mediterranean, after the death of at least 79 migrants in the sinking of a boat off the Peloponnese, in Greece on Wednesday.
The number of departures “explodes”
The deputy director of operations of SOS Méditerranée observes “since the beginning of the year in the central Mediterranean an explosion in the number of departures [de bateaux de migrants] from all the coast of Libya and Tunisia”. The NGO also deplores more and more tragedies.
“We have more than 1,000 visible deaths since the beginning of the year, that is to say the bodies that we can count: the figures are far below the reality.”
Louise Guillaumatat France Inter
Faced with this “humanitarian crisis in the central Mediterranean”the answer to be given cannot only be made “by means of NGOs, by bits of string” for SOS Méditerranée. Its deputy director of operations therefore calls for European cooperation and the creation, as a matter of urgency, of a Rescue Task Force.