Despite mass drowning and illegal push-back operations by the Greek coastguards in the presence of Europe’s border agency Frontex, we experience how EU institutions, national governments, and the mainstream media remain largely silent. Whereas past mass shipwrecks caused at least some reactions, even if often hypocritical ones, the silence that we now witness points to the normalizing of border cruelty and migrant deaths.

WatchTheMed Alarm Phone denounces illegal push-back operation with Frontex present!Jun 17, 16

Following a period without any reported incidents of push-backs since January 2016, and decreased numbers of emergency calls from the Aegean Sea which is clearly related to decreased border crossings as a consequence of the EU-Turkey deal from March 20, the Alarm Phone documented a push-back operation on June 11, 2016.

Weekly Reports: Changing Escape Routes: Alarm Phone experiences in the Mediterranean SeaMay 29, 16

EU politicians and institutions will publicly express their sorrow about the many fatalities. They will call for policy-changes and the further militarisation of the sea. They will again blame the smugglers and seek to reinforce deals with authoritarian regime. However, every shipwreck and every death of the past years is a consequence of exactly these European actions and inactions.

Statement in light of the current situation in the Mediterranean Sea and yesterday’s eventsMay 27, 16

The EU and Death at Sea: The calculated and monitored dying in the Central Mediterranean

Statement: Boat with 500 Syrian and Iraqi refugees sank about 70km North East of Zuwara, LibyaMay 26, 16

While Idomeni camp is evicted and the Aegean route is blocked: Another mass dying as direct consequence of EU migration politics?

Support for a co-ordinated Humanitarian Search and Rescue operation is denied. Does the Turkish Coast Guard hold responsibility for the deaths of two persons at sea?May 11, 16

Following accounts given by the survivors, why was a rescue operation not immediately started by the Turkish Coast Guard after it first arrived on scene at the GPS location?

Weekly Reports: Persistent attempts to reach Europe on ever more dangerous routesApr 24, 16

Arrivals by boat on the Greek islands have increased again in the last two weeks

Weekly Reports: The New Aegean Deportation Regime: Mass incarcerations in hotspots and forced expulsions of Migrants and RefugeesApr 10, 16

Those threatened by deportation, detention and border violence have risen up in self-organised protest. Also we are not getting tired to raise our voices against those dehumanising practices and will continue to struggle for the opening of borders and the freedom of movement for all.

Weekly Report: The week that Europe agrees on inhumane deal with Turkey, many die at seaMar 20, 16

We cannot find words to express our anger, grief and disbelief about these current developments in the Aegean region. More forceful than ever, the EU deploys every means available to deter migration movements and, in the process, is responsible for the unabated dying at sea, and human rights violations within and beyond European territory on a mass scale.

Weekly Reports: Bad weather, violence and ongoing movements in the AegeanMar 13, 16

While the European Union, its border agency FRONTEX and NATO have launched a war against unwanted migrants in the Aegean region, people on the move remind European leaders “we are human beings”, and ask them to open borders, as in a recent protest in a camp in Lesvos.

Weekly Reports: Even prior to the EU-Turkey deal, thousands of people are locked into Turkey and GreeceMar 06, 16

Statist attempts have caused yet another fatal shipwreck: On Sunday the 6th of March, at least 25 travellers died off the Turkish coast, after their wooden vessel had capsized

Weekly Reports: Calls from the Greek-Macedonian border for international solidarityFeb 28, 16

More and more people are currently arriving in Idomeni and with difficult weather conditions the situation will further worsen if Macedonia, under the pressure of EU member states, remains unwilling to open its borders to allow people to move on.

Weekly reports: Militarization will make the Mediterranean border zone even more deadly!Feb 21, 16

One traveller died on the 19th of February, when the Moroccan navy rammed a boat while trying to intercept it.

Lettera Aperta: Basta sensazionalismo. L’appello di Alarm Phone a media e volontariFeb 15, 16

Tuttavia, i momenti di perdita e lutto devono essere rispettati e chiediamo, dunque, maggiore cura, rispetto e responsabilità nella realizzazione e nella pubblicazione di immagini che mostrano i rifugiati.

Newspaper: Ferries for AllFeb 12, 16

For the Freedom of Movement and Equal Rights for All! Campaign Newspaper from the transnational Project Alarmphone

Weekly Reports: Commemorating past border atrocities and struggling against future ones: Transnational solidarity actions on the day of more deaths at seaFeb 07, 16

"Many of the protesters voiced the demand for ‘Ferries for all!’ which is also a slogan of a campaign that the Alarm Phone has now relaunched: ‘Ferries not Frontex’."

Weekly reports: January 2016 - One of the deadliest months ever in the Aegean SeaJan 31, 16

"On a daily basis, reports about capsized boats and drowned travellers reached us and in several cases the Alarm Phone was directly alerted to shipwrecks with dozens of fatalities."

Callout for transnational actions on the 6th February 2016Jan 25, 16

Perspectives on struggle and solidarity

Weekly Reports: Alarm Phone experienced both quiet and extremely busy shiftsJan 17, 16

In the past week, the Alarm Phone was alerted to 37 distress cases in the Aegean Sea and to 1 case in the Western Mediterranean Sea.

Rapporti settimanali: il nuovo anno inizia con più di 60 morti nel Mar Egeo e in Ceuta / SpagnaJan 10, 16

Nonostante i disperati tentativi dell'Unione Europea di ristabilizzare il suo regime di confine fatto a pezzi, ci sembra che solo le cattive condizioni meteorologiche possano impedire alle persone in movimento di attraversare il confine marittimo verso le isole greche e non le guardie di frontiera nazionali o le forze di Frontex.

Weekly Reports: The end of the year approaches – Migration toward Europe continues in high numbersDec 27, 15

Dozens of travellers died when seeking to overcome the Aegean Sea this week.

Weekly Reports: Many deaths in the Aegean Sea and hundreds stuck on Greek Military IslandDec 20, 15

In the last two weeks, we were informed about or directly witnessed at least 7 maritime accidents, with more than one hundred deaths, including many children. Not least due to the EU-enforced presence of Turkish police forces at the coast, travellers are forced to take ever more lengthy and dangerous routes

Violazione dei diritti umani sull’isola di FarmakonisiDec 15, 15

Alarm Phone chiede l’immediato trasferimento di tutti i rifugiati arrivati sull’isola militare di Farmakonisi – i viaggiatoti bloccati sull’isola devono far fronte a condizioni inumane

New deaths in the Southern Border: A boat sinks towards the Canary IslandsDec 08, 15

Around 13 pm we received information through "Caminando Fronteras" Twitter account that 11 dead bodies had been found by the Moroccan authorities and feared them to belong to the missing boat.

Weekly reports: Unabated Migration Movements in all three regions of the Mediterranean SeaDec 06, 15

The situation on the island of Farmakonisi is particularly dramatic, as the island is uninhabited except for the military stationed there. Without any reception infrastructure on the island, arriving people are neither fed, nor given water or shelter.

APPELLO – SMARTPHONE NECESSARI NEL MEDITERRANEODec 03, 15

Dato che le persone in difficoltà non possono specificare la loro posizione attuale, le operazioni di ricerca e salvataggio sono molto più difficili da eseguire e occorre molto più tempo del necessario. La ricerca notturna è particolarmente problematica. Le persone rimangono spesso in acqua per ore prima di essere trovate e salvate. Molti perdono la vita nello stretto di Gibilterra o sono costretti a metterla a rischio perché non esiste una via legale e sicura che gli permetta di raggiungere l’Europa!

Weekly reports: Deadly denial of assistance in the Western Med; borders of Greece increasingly sealed offNov 22, 15

As the rescue vessel had arrived at the spot prior to the accident, why did it not act immediately but waited for almost an hour until the boat had capsized?

Weekly reports: 39 Emergency Situations in Europe’s maritime borderzonesNov 15, 15

We dealt with 38 emergency situations in the Aegean Sea and 1 in the Western Mediterranean Sea. On Wednesday the 11th of November, yet again, many people died at sea. 14 refugees, including 7 children, drowned in Turkish waters when their vessel capsized.

Weekly report: Stranded in the Aegean – The Alarm Phone received various distress calls from those who reached Greek Islands and needed immediate supportNov 08, 15

Most importantly, both the distress situations at sea and those on land can be avoided. Once again, the Alarm Phone wants to call for a radical change in European border politics: Only the possibility to enter Europe through safe ways will end the deaths in the Mediterranean.

La settimana più mortale del 2015 nel mare Egeo, l'Alarm Phone è stato allertato di 100 casi d'imbarcazioni in pericolo.Nov 01, 15

Gli avvenimenti drammatici del'ultima settimana hanno dimostrato ancora una volta che non c'è alternativa all'apertura delle frontiere europee, per finirla con le innumerevoli e insopportabili morti in mare.

Weekly reports: The route has become even more dangerousOct 25, 15

In a shipwreck on Wednesday 14-15 people went missing near Samos and are feared dead and on Sunday a vessel collided with a rock near Lesvos and the bodies of 1 woman and 2 children have already been found and 10 more are still missing. There have been circulating news account of more tragedies, including six more deaths and another person gone missing. Another gruesome tragedy occurred in the Central Mediterranean Sea, presumably with more than 70 casualties. At least 43 bodies were washed up on Libyan shores and another 30 people from the shipwreck are still missing, also feared dead.

Frontex rallenta le procedure di registrazione nell' « Hot Spot » di Moria, lasciando i profughi per giorni in condizioni di vita a rischioOct 25, 15

Dichiarazione di Welcom to Europe e dell'Alarmphone sulla situazione a Lesbo / Grecia

Weekly Reports: Alarm Phone witnessed armed attacks on 6 boats in the Aegean SeaOct 18, 15

"In the past two weeks the Alarm Phone witnessed awful and inacceptable forms of violence committed against travellers at sea. In the Western Mediterranean we directly witnessed how several groups of travellers were forcefully intercepted and detained, with one group being even deported to the Moroccan border to Mauretania. In the Aegean Sea, travellers informed us about six attacks on boats in Greek territorial waters."

Comunicato dopo 1 anno di funzionamentoOct 12, 15

"Anche se ci confrontiamo con la forte disperazione e sofferenza umana in questi momenti di difficoltà, siamo stati anche ispirati innumerevoli volte dalla volontà di continuare la lotta e di attraversare il mare e di potersi muovere poi verso le destinazioni desiderate in tutta Europa"

Weekly Report: 2nd phase of the naval operation ‘Eunavfor Med’ was started by EUOct 04, 15

Weekly Report: The social movement of migration in the Mediterranean Basin towards Europe has never been that strongSep 27, 15

Weekly Report: Edirne, fighting together for the right to free and safe movementSep 20, 15

Weekly Report: What we are currently witnessing is not a ‘migration’ crisis but a European crisisSep 13, 15

"When governments shut down train lines, people started to march instead, occupying highways, breaking through police lines, and thereby enacting their freedom of movement."

Weekly Report: Attacks occurred in the Aegean Sea by masked men, presumably units of the Greek coastguardSep 06, 15

This long summer of migration in 2015 has clearly shown that barbed wire fences, military forces and other measures of deterrence cannot stop human mobility. The recent crossings of ten thousands of people have demonstrated the permeability of borders and have led to the (maybe only momentary) collapse of the Dublin system and other control mechanisms of the border regime of the European Union

Weekly Report: European border regime is increasingly losing its ability to deterAug 30, 15

Weekly Report: The situation is dramatic and the humanitarian crisis is far from being adequately addressedAug 23, 15

Weekly Report: There is an urgent need for the whole European community to show some solidarityAug 17, 15

Weekly Report: These tragedies will keep on happening, again and again, if Europe does not allow for other ways to reach its territoriesAug 09, 15

Distress at sea and endangered lives due to coastguard actions?Aug 05, 15

Alarm Phone Press Release, 5th of August 2015 Distress at sea and endangered lives due to coastguard actions? Evidence shows attacks on migrant boats in the Aegean Sea where engines were removed and boats punctured by coastguards

Alarm Phone Weekly Report, 27th of July to 2nd of AugustAug 02, 15

Watch The Med Alarm Phone: L'UE uccide i rifugiati, Traghetti non Frontex!Apr 19, 15

Push Back Frontex!Feb 15, 15

Contro una nuova dimensione della politica del „lasciati a morire“ in mare

After Two Months in Operation: Insights into the Watch The Med Alarm PhoneDec 04, 14

Watch The Med Alarm Phone against Left-to-die cases at SeaOct 08, 14

»Our project is no solution, but an emergency intervention«

Watch the Med – Reports

10/07: 19 travellers intercepted by the Moroccan navy 11 July 2024
09/07: 7 travellers rescued to Motril 10 July 2024
07/07: One traveller probably rescued to Ceuta after attempting to swim 8 July 2024
07/07: 12 travellers arrived to Alboran Island 8 July 2024
03/07: 13 travellers intercepted to Morocco 4 July 2024

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12 Dec

1/6 🚨Appel à dons : 10 ans de solidarité en mer. Depuis 2014, nous avons répondu à des milliers d’appels de bateaux en détresse. Au total, plus de 8 000 embarcations à travers la Méditerranée, la Mer Egée, l’Atlantique et la Manche. Aujourd'hui, nous avons besoin de vous🧵⬇️

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12 Dec

1/6 🚨Call for donations: 10 years of solidarity at sea. Since 2014, the AlarmPhone has responded to thousands of calls from boats in distress. In total, more than 8,000 boats across the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Atlantic and the English Channel.
Today, we need your help🧵⬇️

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11 Dec

🆘 ~130 people at risk off #Tunisia!

We were alerted to a large wooden boat near #Sfax that has reportedly capsized. While the situation is evolving, it seems some people were found by the Tunisian coastguard, while many others are said to have drowned.

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