ASGI/Gisti/Migreurop Statement
"[On 27 March 2011], a small boat left Tripoli with 72 people on board and, after two weeks adrift at sea, ran aground on the Libyan coast with only nine survivors. No one came to the rescue of this boat, despite the distress signals registered by the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, which located it. Several direct contacts between this boat in distress and other vessels apparently took place, including with a military helicopter, which supplied the boat with biscuits and water (...)