Page 209 - A Helping Hand for Refugees

Every year, thousands of refugees drown in the sea; some of them vanish and some
are saved from drowning at the last second every day. The news that routinely ap-
pears on television and newspapers has failed to attract the attention of people after a
while. However, the tragedy is continuously going on.

When it was set up, Mare Nostrum was an absolute emergency
measure in terms of European sea rescue," Kopp explains. How-
ever, he says that Europe has now deliberately taken a step back
from sea rescue. Triton has a small operational area, and the dis-
tances its boats have to cover are too great. Kopp says this means
that mass death in the Mediterranean is consciously being taken
into account. "The EU is deliberately trying to scare people off

coming to Europe with the deaths of asylum-seeking migrants,"
he says. Kopp says this begs the question of what a human life is
worth to those in authority in Brussels if an essential rescue mis-
sion cannot get EU funding. 32

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