EU officials showed “a clear consciousness and willingness” to let many migrants die, former ICC lawyer and co-author of the report Juan Branco told RT. Branco said the lawyers had always made the most “conservative evaluations” of the number of deaths in the Mediterranean, estimating that the numbers reached 14,000. It’s not merely that the EU “didn't do everything they could,” it’s that they “did everything they could not to do what they should,” co-author Omar Shatz told RT. EU officials proudly declared the migrant crisis over earlier this year, after a near 90 percent drop in arrivals via the Mediterranean in 2018 – but that does not mean there was an equal drop in departures for Europe, Shatz said. There is already an ICC investigation, ongoing since 2011, into crimes against migrants within Libya.

Source: Libya Today June 05, 2019 15:00 UTC