Mediterranean. 140 days blocking

14rd June 2019 Nicolas Gros Verheyde

(B2) This is the calculation made by SOS Méditerranée and Médecins sans frontières, during a press briefing, Wednesday (June 12), a year after the stoppage of the Aquarius, a ship chartered by SOS for the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean.

NGOs denounce "ship blockages" in the central Mediterranean which "have become the new 'norm', with more than 18 publicly documented incidents (absence of authorization to disembark in a safe port for several hours or even days) ».

(Emmanuelle Stoesser)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).