Monday, September 14, 2015
The EU allows the military violence against smugglers in the Mediterranean
The European Union has decided today to authorize the use of military force against traffickers refugees and migrants in the context of maritime business in the Mediterranean, as it became known today from Brussels.
Under this measure, which will apply from the beginning of October, European warships can carry out boarding to go into seizures, seek re-route or even destroy vessels suspected of being used by traffickers. At the same time you may proceed to an arrest, provided they do not enter in Libyan territorial waters.
During the Ministerial Conference in Brussels, the 28 countries of the European Union pointed out that "the conditions" to begin the second phase of enterprise EU Navfor Med, which began in late June in the Mediterranean.
So far, the company; involving four ships and a thousand men; consisted in monitoring the international waters of criminal networks every day they send boats full of refugees and immigrants to Italy from the Libyan coast.
The EU allows the military violence against smugglers in the Mediterranean
The European Union has decided today to authorize the use of military force against traffickers refugees and migrants in the context of maritime business in the Mediterranean, as it became known today from Brussels.
Under this measure, which will apply from the beginning of October, European warships can carry out boarding to go into seizures, seek re-route or even destroy vessels suspected of being used by traffickers. At the same time you may proceed to an arrest, provided they do not enter in Libyan territorial waters.
During the Ministerial Conference in Brussels, the 28 countries of the European Union pointed out that "the conditions" to begin the second phase of enterprise EU Navfor Med, which began in late June in the Mediterranean.
So far, the company; involving four ships and a thousand men; consisted in monitoring the international waters of criminal networks every day they send boats full of refugees and immigrants to Italy from the Libyan coast.