UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
special envoy for the Central Mediterranean route Vincent
Cochetel told ANSA that migrant detention centres and camps in
Libya are "just prisons, some controlled by the authorities,
some by militants and traffickers" with "terrible conditions" to
which all migrants who disembark on the Libyan coasts are
subjected.
"We can hope that one day there will be decent and open
centres, but now they don't exist," Cochetel said.
Cochetel also told ANSA that the Italian justice system must
decide the fate of seized migrant rescue ship Iuventa, "based on
the facts".
Italian authorities seized the Iuventa, a Dutch-flagged ship
operated by German NGO Jugend Rettet, this week after the
Trapani prosecutor's office said its investigation into NGOs
involved in migrant rescue operations found that traffickers had
twice accompanied migrants as they boarded the ship.
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