Police should be allowed aboard migrant NGO ships-Prosecutor

Balance between saving lives and catching traffickers says Roberti

ANSAmed

1 June 2017

ROME - Italian police should be allowed on board NGO ships rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terror Prosecutor Franco Roberti told the parliamentary Schengen committee Wednesday. Without hindering rescues, he said, a police officer "could do typical police work: we need a balance between saving threatened lives and ascertaining the responsibilities of traffickers". Italian prosecutors have said they have heard of NGOs having links to traffickers but they said they had no evidence of this.

Roberti said: "now the dinghies leave Libyan coasts (and the Libyans have never set the limit of their territorial waters, 12 or 16 miles) and they immediately find the NGOs ships that offload them.

"The problem is that the humanitarian ships carry out a function filling in for government ships.

"Objectively, beyond possible connivance with traffickers, they do a much-needed job. "The point is supplying the NGOs with our code of conduct under the UN, they should agree to comply with the guidelines which we have published".


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NGOs in direct contact with human traffickers using social media - Details on migrant boats departure coordinated via WhatsApp & Facebook.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees confirms: "We are looking for useful information on social media to monitor the departures" (sic!)


Source:

* "The NGOs are in contact with traffickers on Facebook". Here is the dossier with evidence. - "Le Ong sono in contatto con i trafficanti su Facebook". Ecco il dossier con le prove.: http://notizie.tiscali.it/cronaca/articoli/ong-contatto-trafficanti-su-facebook/
* "[Exclusive] The boss of traffickers friends with NGO man. The video that demonstrates collaboration with traffickers" - [Esclusiva] Il boss degli scafisti amico dell'uomo Ong. E il video che dimostra la collaborazione con i trafficanti: http://notizie.tiscali.it/esteri/articoli/boss-scafisti-amico-uomo-ong/
* "Here is the evidence in three photos - NGOs replace the traffickers" - Ecco le prove in tre foto: le ​Ong rimpiazzano gli scafisti: http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/ecco-prove-tre-foto-ong-rimpiazzano-scafisti-1391308.html
*  Catania Chief Prosecutor Zuccaro "We have evidence of contacts between traffickers and some rescuers" - "There are recorded phone calls of people who organize the departures and NGO groups funded by questionable sources, but the politic must intervene." -
* “Abbiamo le prove dei contatti tra scafisti e alcuni soccorritori” Il procuratore di Catania: “Ci sono telefonate con chi organizza gli sbarchi e gruppi finanziati da personaggi discutibili. Ma deve intervenire la politica”: http://www.lastampa.it/2017/04/23/italia/cronache/abbiamo-le-prove-dei-contatti-tra-scafisti-e-alcuni-soccorritori-3fCnqLKWWRHBVUiygHv65K/pagina.html