Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th March 2022Case name: 2022_03_05-CM042
Situation: 109 travellers in distress in the Central Med, intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard and imprisoned.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 5th of March 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 109 travellers, including 20 women and three children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Sabratha, Libya, the previous evening on a grey rubber boat. The relative had lost contact to the travellers, but provided us with the last known position of the boat from 03.30 CET that morning. We informed the relevant rescue authorities about the situation via email and urged them to commence a search and rescue operation. In the evening, we learned that from the relative that the travellers had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard, had been arrested and that they were being held in prison.
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