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  • Migrants: shipwreck off the coast of Lesbos, 38 missing. Also a Frontex helicopter for research

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01 November 2015The Aegean sea continues to swallow migrants but in Germany racial hatred against new arrivals is no different. Two dramatic shipwrecks took place today between the Greek and Turkish coasts. The most serious caused another massacre of children. But for those looking for a better future, the dangers do not end after reaching the mainland. In a country of peace and democracy, refugees can find racial violence and hatred.

Like the two Syrian refugees who were attacked with baseball bats in the German town of Wismar on the Baltic Sea. On Saturday night the two Syrians were outside their shelters when a group of men molested and beat them and then fled. Now the two refugees are hospitalized.

And in front of the Greek island of Samos another tragedy of the sea took place: a makeshift boat sank causing 11 deaths, including six children (including 4 babies) and five women. The bodies of ten victims were recovered in the boat cabin, where they drowned, while a girl's body was later recovered on the beach. Another 15 people who were on board the boat were rescued, but there would be at least two missing.

Another shipwreck took place a few miles away. Off the island of Farmakonnisi, a Frontex ship recovered two corpses and rescued three other migrants. The three survivors said they traveled on a boat with 15 people on board poured into Turkish waters. The dead could thus be at least twelve.

Today's are just the latest in a long series of tragedies. This week in particular has seen a high toll on human lives, especially children. Off the Greek islands of Lesvos, Kalymnos and Rhodes more than 60 people drowned, at least half of whom were children. Last Friday alone 22 people drowned in two shipwrecks, one off the Greek island of Kalymnos, where 19 people died, the other in front of the other island of Rhodes, where three people drowned. Of the victims 12 were minors. Also on Friday, four other children were drowned and two others missing in two shipwrecks off the Aegean coast of Turkey. Black Friday followed an equally black Wednesday when 24 migrants - 11 of them children - died in five shipwrecks off the coast of Lesbos, Samos and Agathonisi.

In the meantime, the meeting of the three leaders of the Grosse Koalition today in Berlin on the refugee emergency has failed: the controversial issue of the "transit areas" has remained unsolved for now. Matters that remain open are postponed to a summit on Thursday when experts from the Bund and Laender will meet again.