More than 700 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean on board makeshift boats were rescued over the weekend, especially off Malta and Libya, the NGO SOS Méditerranée announced on Sunday.
Since Saturday, six rescues have been carried out in international waters, the last of which, Sunday afternoon, has rescued 106 people.
This operation came just hours after the Ocean Viking as well as the boats of Sea-Watch and the German NGO ResQship came to the aid during the night from Saturday to Sunday to more than 400 people in distress in the central Mediterranean.
The survivors were then distributed to the Sea-Watch3 and the Ocean Viking to receive treatment in particular.
It is not yet determined in which "safe" port these people can disembark.
Towards a solidarity distribution?
The spokesperson in France of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Céline Schmitt, called in early July for Europe to “urgently” equip itself with an automatic, predictable and solidarity-based distribution mechanism for rescued migrants in order to To offer them the guarantees of a better reception and not to leave only the countries bordering the Mediterranean in the front line.
“If we look at the central Mediterranean [the deadliest maritime migration route in the world, which links Libya to Italy and Malta in particular], last year, less than 50,000 people arrived, she stressed.
It is totally manageable in view of the European population and in view of the number of uprooted people in the world, which has reached 82 million people.
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