Heres an interesting report from Reuters: Almost 1,000 migrants arrived in Italy on a cargo ship on Wednesday after apparently being abandoned by its crew in the Adriatic Sea, the Italian Red Cross said. The mainly Syrian migrants were bundled off the Blue Sky M when it arrived in Italy in the early hours of the morning after it was first spotted near the coast of Corfu. The coastguard said there were 970 people on board when the ship arrived at the small port city of Gallipoli. The Red Cross said the ship, which reportedly set off from Turkey, had apparently been abandoned in open water. If (Italian officers) had not gone on board, it would have crashed into the coast. That was New Years Eve. This is an ongoing issue with human smuggling of refugees from ISIS/Syrian Civil War. They pay between $1000 and $2000 each to be smuggled out on old hulks. There was another one a few days later with 450 refugees who were on a 50-year-old cattle carrier. It ran out of power and was adrift with no crew. The smugglers line the ships up to crash into the Italian coast and abandon ship to smaller boats to avoid prosecution. Desperation meets Greed.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:12:22 +0000
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