Mediterranean: 25 migrants saved - tragedy in the refugee drama!

Mediterranean: 25 migrants saved - tragedy in the refugee drama!

Marina di Carrara, 54033 Carrara, Italien - The dramatic situation in the Mediterranean continues to come to a head! The aid organization SOS Méditerranée saved 25 people out of a burning shipwreck on the Libya coast. The rescue ship "Ocean Viking" was called to an emergency aid mission on Sunday morning, the organization announced. Among the rescued are three women, two toddlers and five unaccompanied minors who are now under the care of helpers. However, the Italian authorities have ordered the ship to head for the port Marina di Carrara, which means a more than 1,200 kilometer detour and endangers the operational capacity of the "Ocean Viking", according to the reporting of oe24.at .

migrants on the most dangerous route

Statistics of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) show that 247 people have died to Europe on the way to the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year. In 2024, a total of 2,360 deaths or missing people were counted, the majority of them on the central Mediterranean route. This route is shaped by an alarming danger, which is why it is considered the most fatal in the world. Over 30,309 people have been reported as missing since 2014 alone, but this could only represent the tip of the iceberg, as shown in information from sosmeditranee.de

A worrying increase in refugee descents from Tunisia increases the problem because the conditions for migrants there and also in Libya are further deteriorating. Reports of human rights violations, including torture and inhuman conditions of detention, repeatedly reach the public and illustrate the urgency of the situation. In Tunisia, the number of departing people rose from 58,900 in 2022 to an impressive 140,000 in the previous year. In view of the increasingly brutal reality, many migrants are forced to put their lives in the hands of smugglers and to venture the dangerous crossing over the Mediterranean with all the associated risks and tragic consequences.