Κάθε μέρα χιλιάδες άνθρωποι ρισκάρουν τη ζωή τους για να ταξιδέψουν προς ένα καλύτερο μέλλον. Όμως η Μεσόγειος είναι γεμάτη κινδύνους...
Οι έρευνες για το τραγικό ναυάγιο ανοιχτά της Πύλου συνεχίζονται, με όλα τα βλέμματα του δυτικού κόσμου να στρέφονται και πάλι στο “καυτό” θέμα του μεταναστευτικού. Μέχρι στιγμής γνωρίζουμε ότι τουλάχιστον 78 άνθρωποι ότι πνίγηκαν στη Μεσόγειο μετά την ανατροπή ενός υπερπληθυσμένου αλιευτικού σκάφους στα ανοικτά των ελληνικών ακτών. Περίπου 750 μετανάστες πιστεύεται ότι επέβαιναν στο μοιραίο σκάφος, ενώ εκατοντάδες εξακολουθούν να αγνοούνται, με τις αρχές να αναφέρουν ότι διασώθηκαν μόλις 104.
Το περιστατικό υπογραμμίζει πόσο επικίνδυνη είναι η διάσχιση της Μεσογείου Θάλασσας για τους μετανάστες, οι οποίοι συχνά αναγκάζονται να ταξιδεύουν με υπερφορτωμένα σκάφη χωρίς εξοπλισμό και προμήθειες, ενώ είναι ευάλωτοι σε οποιαδήποτε κακοκαιρία ή άλλα περιστατικά κατά το ταξίδι τους. Πριν από την πιο πρόσφατη τραγωδία, ο ιστότοπος του Διεθνούς Οργανισμού Μετανάστευσης για τους Αγνοούμενους Μετανάστες μέτρησε 1.166 μετανάστες που είχαν πεθάνει ή εξαφανιστεί στη Μεσόγειο το 2023 (μέχρι τις 9 Ιουνίου).
Στην παρακάτω λίστα θα δούμε πόσες ανθρώπινες ζωές χάθηκαν στη Μεσόγειο από το 2014 μέχρι σήμερα.
epa04291479 A photo made available by the Italian Navy 30 June 2014 of a boat packed with migrants in the Mediterranean Sea 29 June 2014. More than 5000 migrants have been picked up by the Italian navy in the past 48 hours. Around 30 bodies were found in one of the migrant boats EPA/ITALIAN NAVY HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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3.289 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2015
epa04058242 A handout video-grab released by Italian Navy Press Office on 06 February 2014 shows a boat with African migrants on board spotted by the Navy at sea near Lampedusa, Italy, 05 February 2014. Some 1,000 migrants aboard nine boats have been rescued by the Italian coast over the past days. The boats had left North Africa and were heading to the Italian island of Lampedusa, whose inhabitants have been nominated as candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for the solidarity shown in dealing with the thousands of migrants who reach their island each year. EPA/ITALIAN NAVY PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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4.055 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2016
epa01750912 A handout photograph made available by the Royal Australian Defence Force on 04 June 2009, shows, a small boat carrying alleged illegal migrants waving towards the HMAS SYDNEY's Rigid Hull, which sent Inflatable Boat and seaboat crew to give them assistance off the South-East coast of Spain, North of the Moroccan/Algerian Border, in the Mediterranean Sea. HMAS SYDNEY and HMAS BALLARAT are currently on Operation Northern Trident, a worldwide deployment aimed at supporting Government of Ausralia priorities in selected Western, European, North America and Asian Countries. EPA/HMAS SYDNEY/ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY/HANDOUT AUSTRALIA AND NEWZEALAND OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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5.136 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2017
epa10576575 The disembarkation operations at the port of Catania of the 111 migrants who are part of the approximately 600 rescued in Maltese waters 170 miles south of the coast of Sicily by the Coast Guard, in Catania, Sicily Island, southern Italy, 17 April 2023. Sicily Governor Renato Schifani denounced on 17 April the emergency situation on the island region as the arrival of migrants and refugees by sea put pressure to Sicily and other parts of the country. EPA/ORIETTA SCARDINO
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3.139 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2018
epa10591419 Migrants, who were rescued at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard after their boat sank in the Mediterranean, arrive on a boat in the port of Garaboli, east of Tripoli, Libya, 25 April 2023. The Libyan Red Crescent announced the recovery of 11 bodies of migrants from the shores of the town of Sabratha, west of Tripoli, bringing the number of bodies recovered in the past days to 34. Dozens of bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off western Libya. EPA/STRINGER
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2.337 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2019
epa05265406 A handout photgraph made available by the Ong Sos Méditerranée showing migrants on a snking inflatable boat before being rescued by the Aquarius ship of the humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee, and taken to Lampesusa, Italy, 18 April 2016. Six bodies were recovered and 108 migrants were rescued from a semi-submerged rubber dinghy as boat arrivals accelerate amid calm seas. A private rescue ship, the Aquarius, run by humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee found the bodies on the rubber dingyon 17 April 2016. EPA/ONG SOS MEDITERRANEE / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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1.885 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2020
epa10591420 Migrants, who were rescued at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard after their boat sank in the Mediterranean, arrive on a boat in the port of Garaboli, east of Tripoli, Libya, 25 April 2023. The Libyan Red Crescent announced the recovery of 11 bodies of migrants from the shores of the town of Sabratha, west of Tripoli, bringing the number of bodies recovered in the past days to 34. Dozens of bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off western Libya. EPA/STRINGER
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1.449 μετανάστες έχασαν τη ζωή τους ή αγνοούνται
2021
epa07704799 A handout photo made available by German civil sea rescue organisation sea-eye shows a boat carrying migrants (L) and a rescue boat of sea-eye, in the Mediterranean Sea, 08 July 2019 (issued 09 July 2019). According to sea-eye, 44 people were rescued from a woodden boat floating in the Mediterranean between Malta and Lampedusa. The migrants were taken onboard the Alan Kurdi rescue vessel operated by sea-eye and are expected to be transferred to land by the Maltese Navy. EPA/FABIAN HEINZ / SEA-EYE HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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