Latest tactic to avoid capture is to abandon ships after setting autopilot on course for European coasts
- By Gulf News
- Published: 16:49 January 3, 2015
There is no depth to which organised
criminal gangs will not sink when it comes to making money off the
plight of the desolate and the desperate. And as far as human
trafficking and the smuggling of migrants from the shores of North
Africa and the Middle East is concerned, these criminal barons are the
lowest of the low.
Sadly, there is no shortage
of migrants who are willing to risk their lives in a last desperate
attempt for a better future in Europe. And the traffickers prey upon
these vulnerable, taking from them their last savings. In return, the
migrants are bundled onto leaky vessels and set sail on the high seas.
The latest disgusting tactic
to avoid capture by the authorities is to abandon the ships after
setting autopilots on course for the European coastline.
Twice in the past week naval
authorities have had to intervene and take over these ghost ships and
their miserable cargo of heaving humanity.
Europe’s frontier agency has
vowed that it will do what it can to ease the plight of migrants. The
reality, though, is that individual nations have curtailed their
maritime patrols because of rising costs. Until such time as the
European Union ensures that the navies of its nations have enough funds,
the trafficking gangs will literally get away with murder.
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