Facebook Twitter Pinterest People are helped into a small rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. “A dead goat doesn’t fear the butcher’s knife,” quipped one person in Libya during an interview with the Guardian last year. Some European politicians have previously argued that the Mediterranean rescue missions, stationed off the Libyan coast, encourage more people to risk the journey. When EU-led rescue missions were suspended in early 2015, more migrants and refugees attempted the journey than ever before, and more drowned. Guardian interviews at the time suggested that both migrants and smugglers were unaware of the existence of the rescue missions.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2016 11:52 UTC