An important reminder.

🌊Geo Barents is getting ready to set sail again after an unjust detention.

The obstruction and harassment of SAR NGOs' by Italian authorities will NOT stop people from crossing the #Mediterranean , but only make it more dangerous.

💙We go back where we should always have been.

📰'The situation at the French-British border has always been catastrophic. But there has been an increase in brutality”, Feyrouz Lajili, MSF project coordinator in #Calais warns of the intolerable human cost of deterrence policies pursued at #EU borders – via The Parliament

🚨Once again, yesterday, the #Italy -funded Libyan Coast Guard violently attacked a humanitarian rescue ship & fired shots during a rescue operation, putting dozens of human lives at sea in grave danger.

⛔️The #EU & Italy must stop their support to the Libyan Coast Guard. ❗️NOW❗️

#Detention #GeoBarents #Day15

The EU and its member states, namely #Italy & #Malta , are supporting the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept people at sea and forcibly return them to #Libya .

Yet, it is those fulfilling their legal duty to save lives at sea who are being criminalized.

#Detention #GeoBarents #Day13

3⃣7⃣2⃣ people have already died or gone missing attempting to cross the Central #Mediterranean in 2024, an average of 4⃣ people/day.

Despite the lack of search & rescue capacity, yet another humanitarian ship is stopped from saving lives at sea❗️