US EditionHumanitarian group says Libya’s coast guard fired on its vessel in the Mediterranean
The Libyan Coast Guard fired hundreds of shells for 20 minutes at the Ocean Viking while it was rescuing migrants, causing significant damage but no casualties, SOS Mediterranee reported.
- A humanitarian group, SOS Mediterranee, reported that Libya's coast guard fired on its vessel during a search for a migrant boat in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.
- The incident involved gunfire that lasted for 20 minutes in international waters, about 40 nautical miles from the Libyan coast.
- No casualties were reported, but SOS Mediterranee stated that their vessel sustained significant damage from the attack.
- This incident is noted as one of the most violent involving a European rescue ship and the Libyan coast guard, which is funded by the European Union.
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A European Ngo Denounces a “Deliberate and Unprecedented” Libyan Coast Guard Attack on a Rescue Ship
The European NGO SOS Méditerranée has denounced that the crew of its rescue ship Ocean Viking was the object of an intense shooting last Saturday in international waters of the Central Mediterranean when it was transporting 87 migrants rescued by a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat. Although there have been no fatalities, fear was tangible and material damage, significant. SOS Méditerranée has described it as “an unacceptable and unprecedented deli…
However, the claims of the good-men's NGO stand on shaky legs. Rather, it seems, the left-wing smugglers drifted around right off the coast of Libya. The latest victim story of the "sea rescuer" scene (actually migrant tow scene) turns out to be more accurate than what it is again and again: a fairy tale for the public. According to the NGO SOS Méditerranée, the ship Ocean Viking is said to have been shot at in international waters.
We have read the reports of the Libyan Coast Guard's shooting press to the Ocean Viking rescue ship of the Ong SOS Méditerranée and have contacted the Libyan authorities on this incident to clarify the facts. It is now up to the Libyan authorities to urgently shed light on what has happened. This is what the spokesman of the European Commission, Markus Lammert, says in the daily briefing with the press. We are now establishing the facts, and the…
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