A new tragedy for asylum seekers in the Mediterranean sea/ drowning of at least 60 asylum seekers

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, citing the newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, on According to the reports of the survivors, at least 60 passengers of the refugee boat that sank in the Mediterranean Sea while crossing to Europe have died.

The aid organization SOS Méditerranée announced on Thursday that according to The rescued survivor, about 60 people, including several women and at least one child, died in this crossing.

This relief organization announced: This inflatable boat set off from Savija in Libya eight days ago and after Engine failure, passengers floated on water for days without food or water. On Wednesday, the survivors were rescued by the rescue ship “Ocean Viking” in the search area.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), last year at least 3,105 migrants tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. They lost their lives or went missing. Since January, 278 people have gone missing or died trying to cross Europe.

The International Organization for Migration called 2023 the deadliest year for migrants since 2014.

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According to this information, the most dangerous migration route in 2023 is the Mediterranean Sea with at least 3129 deaths.

In this way, the Mediterranean Sea is under the shadow of the anti-immigration policies of European countries, more than ever before. It has become deadly for immigrants and asylum seekers. Many experts believe that the strict policies of the European Union, regardless of the number of victims of asylum seekers, are the cause of more deaths. However, migration remains an unresolved crisis in the EU. Europe remains, and in order to solve this crisis and reduce the victims of asylum seekers, instead of creating legal ways for immigrants to enter, the European Union continues to increase the pressure on this group and puts stricter policies towards them on the agenda.

After years of discussions, the representatives of EU countries and the parliament reached an agreement at the end of last year about fundamental reforms in the asylum system and the tightening of strictures against refugees.

Based on this agreement, in the future There should be uniform border procedures at the EU’s external borders. In particular, there are plans to get much tougher on people from countries that are considered relatively safe. Accordingly, until a decision on the asylum application is made, people should be able to be accommodated in detention camps under prison-like conditions. It will be reorganized using a “solidarity mechanism”. Countries that do not want to accept refugees must offer other support, for example in the form of cash payments. Based on this, rejected asylum seekers should be easily deported to safe third countries in the future.

On the other hand, European countries continue to intensify their strict policies towards asylum seekers separately.

IOM Deputy Director General Oguchi Daniels recently said about the victimization of asylum seekers that each of these cases is a tragedy that weighs heavily on the families of the victims for decades. He said: “We need to do more to enable safe immigration so that in 10 years people don’t have to risk their lives in search of a better life.

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