Ships often leave ports at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, full of hopeful emigrants. To the astonishment of everyone, the ships are later found drifting towards Greek or Italian ports without a skipper or captain and without any of the members of the original crew !
From reports it would seem no one knows anything about these boats, where and when they left their Port, who was legally aboard or what cargo the boat was carrying ! Port authorities know nothing, not even when hundreds of people in their port have suddenly vanished !
If the boat had been a Russian destroyer, or a submarine furtively moving in the open sea, satellites would have furnished precious information ! Spies in ports would have transmitted details to their contacts or even to local Embassies !
It is only afterwards, when survivors are questioned that details are reported and published in the Press ! That is obviously much too late !
FRONTEX is the official organisation which the EU created to control illegal immigration ! Does FRONTEX not have any "Spies or Informers" in ports around the Eastern Mediterranean who could forewarn them of what was going on before it is too late to act ? Does Frontex not seek to apprehend the "mafia" members who exploit and rob these miserable people ?
Do EU embassies never alert anyone on a timely basis ?
Finally, has the United Nations ever intervened when Human Rights are not respected ? Has it ever debated the exploitation of would be immigrants ?
Who is responsible for prosecuting these "human traffickers" ? Perhaps Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the EU Commission, could answer some of these questions !
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