Libya, 522 refugees intercepted and brought back to Tobruk including 240 children from armed militias aboard patrol boats donated by Italy
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ROME (DIRE Agency) – “A ship belonging to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, but actually belonging to a militia, intercepted 60 kilometers from the coast and brought back to Tobruk 522 people, including 240 minors, mainly Syrian and Egyptian nationals, who were on board an old fishing boat The militiamen conducted the operation after being informed of the boat’s transit through the sea from sources they did not want to specify”. Representatives of the organization Refugees in Libyamade up of African migrants residing or stranded in Libya, added on Twitter: “With the renewal of the terrorist system set up by Italy and Libya, more and more people continue to die, while the North African country becomes increasingly unsustainable”.
Other than the Coast Guard: they are armed militiamen. The financing of the Libyan Coast Guard which, according to research by various media and Libyan, Italian and international NGOs, is actually made up of armed militias who commit abuses and whose composition and activities are unknown, is one of the most discussed points of the Memorandum between Italy and Libya signed in 2017, by the then Gentiloni government, Marco Minniti, Minister of the Interior. The agreement was renewed for the first time in 2020 and is awaiting automatic renewal for a third time in February next year, after the tacit consent of the government in Rome, which had time to revoke it by the 2nd of the month of November.
The Tarik Bin Ziad Battalion. “The ship was blocked by the battalion of Tarik Bin Ziad, one of the strongest militias in Tobruk, who told us he intervened after receiving news about this ship from an undisclosed source,” says a spokesman for Refugees who is in Libya and who prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons. The boat that took care of the operation “carried the initials Ingadz 7, or the Arabic word for ‘rescue’, further demonstrating that it was a vessel of the self-styled Coast Guard”.
* Brando Ricci, DIRE Agency
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