Overcrowded detention centres, beatings and ransom, and the occasional killing out at sea – meet the Libyan militia pulling back refugees in the Central Mediterranean
A shadowy militia knee-deep in human smuggling keeps pulling migrants back to Libya from the Maltese SAR, detaining them until a smuggler buys their freedom • Both Malta and Frontex have given coordinates to this militia
The EU border agency and Malta's government have reportedly been providing a Libyan militia with invaluable help to drag refugees aboard boats back to Libya.