Immigrants dead at the frontiers of Europe

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According to the following press review at least 14,860 people have died since 1988 along the european frontiers. Among them 6,441 were missing in the sea. 10,870 migrants died in the Mediterranean sea, and through the Atlantic Ocean towards Spain, and 1.691 lost their life trying to cross Sahara desert in order to reach Europe [read more...] [1988-2008 press review]

In 15 pictures the evidence of tortures against refugees in Libya
That's how 50 Somalis were injured by knife by the Libyan police, after a riot in the detention centre for undocumented migrants of Ganfuda, near Benghazi. On August 11, when the Somali website Shabelle released the news of a massacre committed by the Libyan police in Benghazi, the Libyan ambassador in Mogadishu, Rabiic Canshuur, denied the report. This time, it will be a bit more difficult to deny these photos

Forced labour and tortures for Eritreans repatriated from Libya
Exclusive: three witnesses speak out. Caught by the Libyan police on the route to Lampedusa, they were repatriated in 2004 on a flight paied by Italy. And the same could happen to the Eritreans deported from Italy to Libya in these days
VIDEO Eritrea: voices of torture
Eritrea: hopes betrayed by the regime repression
Service for life: State Repression and Indefinite Conscription in Eritrea
Refoulement: Italian patrols deported 1.122 people to Libya
Letters from the Eritreans in Tripoli. Tortured in Libya as in Eritrea

	The Northern Jungle. Reportage from Calais and London A documentary by Vincent Nguyen and Jean-Sebastien Desbordes. With the voices of the Eritrean refugees, the trucks drivers, the smugglers, and the social workers LOOK THE VIDEO First part Second part For more info, download the report La loi de la jungle
	Libya: externalize the borders to externalize asylum? While more then 1.000 migrants has been deported to Libya from the Italian patrols, Tripoli is considering to sign the Geneva Convention. The first step to the externalization of asylum. Mass deportations and some resettlements to appease the EU coscience
	The massacre: 459 deaths in the first 6 months of 2009 The number of deaths at the border fell for the first time over the last three years. In the first semester of 2008, the victims had been 985. The main reason is the objective decrease in the number of arrivals, particularly in Italy and Spain
	74 Eritrean Refugees Sent Back to Libya on July 1st We received an appeal from the Eritrean community in Tripoli. The passengers of the vessel denied entrance off the coast of Lampedusa were Eritrean: Eritrean refugees who now risk being repatriated or held indeterminately in Libyan prisons
	Sent back to Libya: Exclusive Photos from Paris Match Aboard the Italian Coastguard patrol boat which returned 90 migrants rescued from the high seas to Tripoli on May 13th, 2009, there were two French journalists. And here are their exclusive photos which show the conditions of the deportation
	Lampedusa: Tunisians beaten by the Italian police On February 18th 2009, a riot broke out leaded by the Tunisians detainees after one month of detention in inhuman conditions. The Italian police answered beating tens of inmates. Today we are able to make you listen the voice of the witnesses of that violence
	Egypt: on the route of the Eritrean diaspora to Israel Asmara, Cairo, Tripoli, Asmara. Father Austin glances through a dozen white envelopes. He checks the addresses written in pen. There are no stamps. They are the letters of Eritrean prisoners of Burg el Arab. They were arrested in Egypt on their way to the Jewish State
	Brave Captains. Lampedusa's fishermen talk "We are in the same area. It is our fishing zone, and they pass through it". Almost every day, Sicilian fishermen cross the migrants boats on their route to Lampedusa. And often they rescue them. Last time it happened on 28 November 2008. With a stormy sea and waves eight meters high
	Guantanamo Libya: the new Italian border police The iron door is closed. From the small loophole I see the faces of two African guys and one Egyptian. I can't stand the acrid smell coming from the holding cells. I ask them to move. Now I can see the whole room, three meters per eight. There are some thirty people inside
	Israel: the new route for Eritreans refugees Instead of the Libyan prisons and the death in the sea prefer the Jewish state. In 2007, according to the UNHCR, about 5,000 asylum seekers entered Israel. Meanwhile, Egypt has reinforced its control devices, allowing the border police to open fire on the migrants
	Trapped in Greece: illegal entry, illegal exit Every time I enter in the sea I feel anguish. And I think it is not normal. I walk with caution, in a small bay of the Greek island of Samos, full of turist. I don’t wear shoes. And I'm afraid to touch a dead body underwater. I have in mind the pictures I saw one week ago in Lesvos
	Patras: ECHR declared admissible the case of 35 refugees Border Sahara: the detention centres in the Libyan desert Libya: reportage from the detention centre of Misratah Tunisia: the dictatorship south of Lampedusa Lifes in limbo. Migrants and refugees in Cyprus Istanbul on the way of African migrations The situation of exiles on the English Channel Egypt: Deadly journeys through the desert Held in Ukraine, immigrants cling to Europe dream

APRIL 2009 - Nine more victims along the borders of Europe. Six of them drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Three others people died in Spain and France[...] [Archive]

06/11/09	Turkey	Seven bodies found off the Turkish coasts of Bodrum, drowned on the route to Greeece	Ansa Med
01/11/09	France	Migrant found dead in the back of a lorry as it prepares to enter Channel Tunnel, towards Uk	Daily Mail
29/10/09	Spain	Two dead people found on a boat rescued 66 miles south est of Cartagena	El Pais
27/10/09	Greece	Boat sinks off Lesvos island. Three women and 5 children – all Afghans - were reported to be drowned	AP
26/10/09	Italy	300 Eritreans and Somalis landed in Sicily after 5 days in the stormy sea. One man found dead on board	Repubblica
07/10/09	Italy	Migrants arrival in Gela, Sicily. Three bodies were recovered from the sea. Three other people were reported to be missing	Ansa
23/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead one Eritrean trying to cross into Israel	Reuters
19/09/09	Morocco	Shipwreck off the island of Perejil. 8 bodies recovered, other 21 people were reported to be missing	Reuters
16/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead two Eritrean refugees trying to cross into Israel	Reuters
09/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead 4 African migrants as they tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel. Here, at least 12 African migrants have been killed since May 2009	Reuters
01/09/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot and killed an African migrant near the border with Israel and seriously wounded an 18 years old women	Reuters
31/08/09	Spain	Boat landed in Canary island, in Granadilla (Tenerife), one dead onboard	El Pais
29/08/09	Malta	Body found off Bizzerbugia. It could be one of the passengers of the boat rescued two days before in the same area	Ansa
27/08/09	Malta	Migrants boat rescued off Malta, the body of a dead man was found in the sea during the operations	Ansa
22/08/09	Italy	The lifeless body of a man was found off Linosa, 24 miles on the north of Lampedusa	Repubblica
20/08/09	Italia	Five Eritreans rescued 12 miles south off Lampedusa claimed 75 passengers of the same boat have died during the 20 days spent going adrift in the Mediterranean, between Libyan and Italian shores. Their bodies were thrown in the sea by the survivors. Malta's authorities found 7 bodies in the open sea	Ansa
20/08/09	Italy	A man hidden under a truck just disembarked in the port of Brindisi, fall on the road and died immediately	Ansa
09/08/09	Libya	Libyan police killed at least 6 Somali refugees after a fight against a group of refugees who tried to escape from the detention camp of Ganfuda, near Benghazi. Other sources reported the victims would be 20	Fortress Europe
13/08/09	Greece	Two bodies were recovered from the sea off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Kos while another three people were reported to be missing	Kathimerini
11/08/09	Spain	Body found near Cartagena, between Cabo de Agua and the island of Escombreras	La Verdad
10/08/09	Italy	A boat broke the engine three miles off the island of Pantelleria. Four of the nine passengers try to cover the distance by swimming. One of them is reported to be missing	Ansa
07/08/09	Greece	Body found at Igoumenitsa port. He sneaked onto a truck believing it was about to board a ferry for Italy and he died after he jumped off when it appears that the truck was headed for mainland Greece	Kathimerini
06/08/09	Algeria	A migrant died after an Algerian coast guard vessel collided with a boat carrying migrants to Sardinia	El Watan
31/07/09	Egypt	Egypt police kill African migrant at Israel border. At least seven African migrants have been killed at the border since mid-May	Reuters
27/07/09	Greece	The Kurd refugee from Iraq Arivan Abdullah Osman who had been severly injured on the 3rd of April at Igoumenitsa port by Port police, while trying to reach Italy, died today at Thessaloniki hospital	Reuters
27/07/09	Spain	Parts of a body in advanced state of decomposition were found along La Fontanilla de Marbella beach, where one week before a dead body was recovered	Sur
24/07/09	Spain	One man is reported to be missing after he fell in the water during a rescue operation in front of Manilva coast, close to Malaga	Sur
23/07/09	Turkey	Three people killed in a road accident of a truck smuggling migrants near Kulp, in Diyarbakır province	France Presse
22/07/09	Spain	A dead body was recovered on the beach of La Fontanilla de Marbella	Sur
17/07/09	Spain	Lifeless body found in Cadiz sea, in front of Barbate. It could be the tenth victim of the shipwreck of June 29	Sur
15/07/09	Spain	A third passenger of the migrants boat landed in Canary have died in the hospital of El Hierro	Diario de Navarra
15/07/09	Spain	Migrants boat landed in the Canary island of El Hierro. One dead on board. A second man died soon after his hospitalization	Diario de Navarra
03/07/09	Egitto	Egyptian police shot dead two Somali migrants on Thursday who tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel	Reuters
30/06/09	Spain	8 people were drowned, including 2 women, after a boat capsized in front of the coast of Barbate, near Cadiz	El Mundo
28/06/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant and wounded two others, including a 15-year-old, at the Israeli border	Reuters
24/06/09	Egypt	Egyptian police shot dead a migrant at the Israel border in the Sinai desert. The victim, thought to be in his 20s, was the third killed since mid-May	Reuters
23/06/09	Italy	Amir Rohol, a 19 years old Afghan, died after having fallen from a truck disembarked in the port of Ancona	Ansa
17/06/09	Spain	Migrants boat rescued off Murcia. A man is dead and a second one is reported to be missing	Ansa
04/06/09	Spain	At least 18 people reported to be missing after their boat capsized 18 km from Tarifa (Cádiz)	El Pais
03/06/09	Spain	A cargo ship intercepted the corpse of a drowned migrant off Cabo de Gata, in Andalucia	La Verdad de Murcia
02/06/09	Egypt	Egyptian police killed an African migrant near Israel border along the Sinai. A second one was shot in the back and is in critical conditions	Reuters
22/05/09	Italy	The lifeless body of a migrant was found in the sea near the island of Cavoli, along the south eastern coast of Sardinia	Ansa
02/05/09	Italy	One of the 140 migrants rescued two weeks before by the Turkish Pinar cargo ship, died at the hospital of Caltanisseta for meningitis	Ansa
30/04/09	Spain	One of the passenger of a boat intercepted the day before 14 miles from Tarifa (Cádiz), died in the hospital of Isla de las Palomas	El Mundo
23/04/09	Spain	Two dead bodies were found in the Strait of Gibraltar by the Spanish Coast Guard	Diario de Navarra
20/04/09	Spain	One man drowned during the rescue operations of a boat departed from Senegal and directed to Canary islands, 27 miles off Nouadhibou	El Dia
16/04/09	Italy	140 migrants rescued off Lampedusa by the Turkish Pinar cargo ship. During the operations, one 18 years old pregnant woman drowned	Repubblica
08/04/09	Italy	Migrants boat rescued by the Italian fishing boat Cesare Rustico, capsized. 3 people missing	Ansa
05/04/09	France	The dead body of a migrant was found in the Channel’s tunnel, died after he felt from the train under which he was travelling hidden towards England	Le Monde
03/04/09	Italy	Two bodies found on a migrants’ boat intercepted 60 miles south of Lampedusa	Apcom
29/03/09	Italy	An Iraqi was found dead in the port of Ancona, inside a Greek ferry coming from Patras, where he was embarked hidden under a truck	Ansa
29/03/09	Libya	Migrants boat sank off Said Biilal Janzur, a suburb of Tripoli, from where it had left three hours before. 20 bodies were recovered, while 210 people were reported to be missing	Ansa
27/03/09	Spain	According to the ngo Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos de Andalucía, at least 581 migrants have died in 2008 trying to reach Spain: 239 off the Canary islands and 342 in the Mediterranean	Apdha
26/03/09	Italy	A migrant was found dead in the port of Venice, hidden inside a truck emarked on the Hellenic Master ferry, coming from Greece	Gazzettino
26/03/09	Algeria	According to the Nigeria’s Ambassador to Algeria, 14 people died in the desert after they got lost, ran out of fuel and water	Nigerian Tribune
22/03/09	Spain	Two people were reported to be missing after they fell in the sea during a rescue operation	Publico
20/03/09	Tunisia	A shipwreck on the way to Lampedusa happened off Sfax, near the Kerkennah island. 17 bodies were recovered while around 50 remained missing	Ansa
18/03/09	Spain	The lifeless body of a drowned migrant was found on La Línea de la Concepción seaside	Sur
07/03/09	Spain	A migrant was deadly injured trying to overcome the Ceuta border fence	Abc
25/02/09	France	A baby died few days after his birth near Dunkerque. His parents, Kurdish from Iraw, where traveling towards England and sleeping at the open air, in some barracks near the A 16 hiway	Nord Littoral
23/02/09	Algeria	According to official figures, the Algerian authorities have recovered from the sea the dead bodies of 261 emigrants since 2005. In particular: 98 in 2008, 61 in 2007, 73 in 2006 and 29 in 2005	Info Soir
21/02/09	Spain	One dead body found on a boat carrying 35 migrants, intercepted 18 miles off Motril, near Granada	La Razón
16/02/09	Spain	25 drowned and one reported to be missing after a boat capsized 20 metres from the coast of Lanzarote island, in the Canaries. Among the victims there are 4 babies, 4 children 8 to 11 years old, and two women, one of which was 8 months pregnant	Abc
02/02/09	Spain	Boat intercepted south of Gran Canaria island: 3 dead men on board	El Pais
29/01/09	Tunisia	8 migrants were reported to be missing after their boat capsized off Hammam-Lif, 15 km south of Tunis	Ansa
29/01/09	Turkey	The bodies of 5 have been washed up on the coast of southwest Turkey town of Bodrum	Kathimerini
25/01/09	Algeria	12 men are reported to be missing at sea, since they left, on January 2, from the coast of Arzew heading for Spain	Quotidien d’Oran
21/01/09	Italy	53 migrants arrived to Lampedusa. One dead among them	Adnkronos
19/01/09	Tunisia	26 people were reported to be missing after their boat capsized off La Marsa, near Tunis, trying to reach Italy	Repubblica
15/01/09	Algeria	4 men are reported to be missing after their boat sank off Gdyel, near Oran	Quotidien d’Oran
13/01/09	Greece	The bodies of 2 migrants were discovered on the island of Leipsoi close to a half-sunken plastic rowboat	Ansa
13/01/09	Greece	An 18-month-old baby drowned off the island of Syros yesterday when a boat carrying 19 migrants capsized	Kathimerini
10/01/09	Senegal	A canoe capsized off Dakar and 4 women drowned	Iht
08/01/09	Spain	A boat of migrants landed in the island of Alboran, in Andalucia, one dead were found on board	El Mundo
01/01/09	Morocco	Migrant shot dead by the Moroccan police when trying to cross the border fence in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. He died after his hospitalization in El Hassani hospital, in Nador	El Pais

1988-2008 press review