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Gruesome discovery: Bound migrant corpses found in Mallorca!
Bodies of tied up drowned people discovered off Mallorca. Spanish police are investigating. Migrants and causes of flight in focus.
Gruesome discovery: Bound migrant corpses found in Mallorca!
The waters off Mallorca are at the center of shocking discoveries: Spanish police have found several bodies of people who were tied hand and foot and drowned. These grisly finds raise terrible suspicions that these were migrants who were on the dangerous journey from North Africa to Europe. According to Schwarzwälder Bote, police have begun investigating murder while the waters around the Balearic Islands are proving to be one of the riskiest migration routes crystallize.
A total of five bodies have been discovered in the past few weeks, but the reason for the delayed announcement of the findings remains unclear. What is particularly tragic is that young men often burn their ID cards before they leave to make identification more difficult in the event of them drowning, which makes the authorities' work even more difficult. In order to enable the relatives to be identified, the Spanish authorities ordered an autopsy and stored DNA samples.
Escape across the Mediterranean: increasing deaths
The shocking discoveries are not just limited to Mallorca. Especially these days, several sea rescue ships with many migrants on board have been successful. As Welt reports, the German rescue ships “Sea-Watch 3” and “Sea-Eye 4” rescued a total of over 550 people from the Mediterranean and brought them safely to the Italian port. But the journey was anything but easy for those rescued - some had to stay on board in adverse conditions for up to two weeks before they were finally allowed to land.
The operating conditions for the volunteer sea rescuers are becoming increasingly tense. The “Humanity 1”, another civil sea rescue ship, has been waiting for over a week to be assigned a safe port with 414 people on board. Health problems are piling up on board, including children with high fevers and other serious illnesses, while a man with a gunshot wound cannot be treated. These reports clearly show how dramatic the situation is in the central Mediterranean, where over 1,000 people have already died or are missing this year.
A growing crisis at European borders
The number of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean continues to rise dramatically. According to Vorwärts, around 1,000 deaths have been recorded annually in recent years, while this year alone the number is already over 1,000, according to UN figures. This topic is receiving less and less attention in German federal politics. The traffic light coalition has announced that it will strengthen sea rescue, but concrete measures have so far been lacking and a European rescue program is a long way off.
Annika Klose, a committed member of the Bundestag, advocates for safer escape routes and regulated family reunification and calls for more support for civilian sea rescue. She criticizes the current policy, which focuses more on border controls, and calls for a rethink. Ultimately, a humanitarian sea rescue program could be implemented with just 0.13 percent of the EU's annual budget.
It is up to the European community and those responsible to change the situation and take more decisive action against the humanitarian crises. Unless action is taken soon, the horrors of the Mediterranean could continue to grow - both from migrants risking their lives and from the cruel circumstances that lead to such horrific discoveries.