Around 330 mostly Eritrean migrants arrived in Port of Augusta in Sicily in late June, 2016. They were taken on solid ground by one of the Mediterranean rescue operations.
Deadly Crossing Reportage, 2016
Profit-seeking criminals smuggle hundreds of thousands of migrants from North Africa to southern Italy annually. Smugglers take advantage of mostly African migrants, who are determined to make it on board literally at any cost -- tickets on death boats can cost 200, 500 or sometimes even 1000 US dollars.
Reportage of migrants crossing Mediterranean Sea from Northern Africa to Sicily, Italy.
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Unknown migrant’s tomb in a graveyard in Siracusa. Around 10 000 people have tried trying the periculous Mediterranean crossing over the past three years.
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Italian crime inspectors face the humanitarian emergency daily at work at Siracusa courthouse as they investigate the shipwrecks that take place in the Mediterranean.
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Migrant Offshore Station is one of the humanitarian organizations that continue to save lives on the sea and provide migrants with food and first aid.
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Smugglers notes and maps that are often given to migrants before they depart for the dangerous journey.
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Eritrean migrants waiting to take the first step on solid ground after a few days on a cramped boat.
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Young Eritrean men helping each other as one of them got injured after stepping on a landmine in Libya. The Italian policeman on the right escorted them to a temporary migrant camp in Augusta.
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Images imported from a cell phone of a deceased person. Italian police is still looking for the family of the supposedly Eritrean young lady in the picture in the centre.
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