By Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Greece’s Ombudsman has found that the coast guard failed to follow maritime rules in one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks in 2023, raising the…
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Italian Judge Throws Out Case Against Migrant NGOs After Seven Years
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian judge on Friday cleared three migrant sea rescue charities that had been accused of abetting irregular immigration in complicity with human traffickers, throwing out a case opened…
https://gcaptain.com/italian-judge-throws-out-case-against-migrant-ngos-after-seven-years/
Impeding Migrant Rescues At Sea Is ‘Gesture Of Hate’
By Philip Pullella MARSEILLE, France, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Friday that migrants who risk drowning at sea “must be rescued” because doing so was “a duty of humanity”…
https://gcaptain.com/impeding-migrant-rescues-at-sea-is-gesture-of-hate/
A Closer Look At the Migrant Boat Disaster Off Greece
by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) On June 13, a grim and preventable disaster unfolded in the Mediterranean Sea. A fishing trawler known as the Adriana, overburdened with around 750 migrants,…
https://gcaptain.com/a-closer-look-at-the-migrant-boat-disaster-off-greece/
Survivors of Greece Boat Disaster Say Coastguard Rope Toppled Boat
MALAKASA/KALAMATA, Greece, June 30 (Reuters) – Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out…
https://gcaptain.com/survivors-of-greece-boat-disaster-say-coastguard-rope-toppled-boat/
Italy To Hold Cabinet Meeting In Migrant Shipwreck Area
MILAN, March 4 (Reuters) – Italy’s government will hold a cabinet meeting near the southern seaside town where dozens of bodies washed ashore after a migrant ship broke up on rocks last month, Prime…
https://gcaptain.com/italy-to-hold-cabinet-meeting-in-migrant-shipwreck-area/