Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 6th February 2024Case name: 2024_02_06-CMCM031
Situation: Around 100 travellers intercepted and returned to Libya.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Tuesday the 6th of February 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of around 100 travellers in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Zawiya on a blue wooden boat. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. We stayed in contact with the travellers and forwarded their updated positions to the authorities. Later, we learned that the travellers had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard.
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