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âItâs a day offâ: wiretaps show Mediterranean migrants were left to die A Libyan coastguard official with people rescued from the sea on 27 June 2017. Photograph: Taha Jawashi/AFP/Getty Exclusive: Transcripts of conversations between Italian officials and Libyan coastguard contained in leaked file Fri 16 Apr 2021 15.30 EDT Last modified on Sat 17 Apr 2021 00.09 EDT At 8.18am on Friday 16 June 2017, the Libyan coastguard Col Massoud Abdalsamad received a long-distance phone call from an Italian coastguard official who told him that 10 migrant dinghies were in distress, many in Libyan territorial waters. âItâs a day off. Itâs a holiday here. But I can try to help,â Abdalsamad told the official. âPerhaps we can be there tomorrow.â ....
Fri 9 Apr 2021 15.30 EDT Prosecutors in Italy have secretly recorded hundreds of conversations between human rights lawyers and their clients in cases related to allegations that NGOs operating rescue boats that saved thousands from drowning in the Mediterranean were complicit in people smuggling. In a joint investigation with the Italian public broadcaster Rai News and the newspaper Domani, the Guardian has seen documents from prosecutors in Trapani, Sicily, detailing private conversations between human rights lawyers and their clients, including a priest, and with journalists in which confidential information was discussed regarding ongoing trials, private sources and legal defence strategies in upcoming hearings. ....