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Italian fishermen and Libyan Coastguards clash
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Italian fishing industry body Federpesca has condemned the actions of a Libyan Coastguard patrol that fired on Italian fishing vessels this week, with one Italian crewman injured.
Italian naval vessels attended the scene to keep the Libyan and Italian vessels apart in an area that has seen increasing clashes taking place in recent years.
Last year 18 fishermen and two vessels from Sicily were held in Libya for more than three months before being freed in December.
In this latest incident, three Italian vessels from Mazara del Vallo in Sicily fishing for red prawns are reported to have been machine-gunned, while Libyan authorities claim that only warning shots were fired into the air.
Libyan coastguard opens fire on Italian fishermen from patrol boat donated by Rome It s a miracle we survived , the captain of the ship told Italian reporters
7 May 2021 • 4:41pm
The Italian fishing boat Aliseo was fishing north of the Libyan coast when it was hit by shots fired by a Libyan patrol vessel, seen in the background
Credit: MarinaMilitare/DAPRESS / SplashNews.com
The Libyan coastguard has prompted uproar after it opened fire on Italian fishermen, wounding a skipper, from a patrol vessel donated by the Italian government.
Italian MPs condemned the attack on Thursday and reacted with fury to the revelation that the vessel had been donated by Rome to Libya to help intercept migrants trying to reach southern Europe from the Libyan coast.
Miracle we survived - trawler skipper hurt by Libya fire Only God helped us Giuseppe Giacalone tells ANSA
07 Maggio 2021
PALERMO, MAY 7 - The skipper of an Italian trawler
who was hit in the forehead by flying glass after Libyan
machine-gun fire smashed his cabin window said on his way back
to Sicily Friday that he and the crew had survived the incident by a miracle . It s a miracle we survived, they fired shotguns at us, the
cabin here is full of holes, Giuseppe Giacalone told ANSA in a
radio call on his way back to base at Mazra del Vallo.