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MALTA: Lampedusa tragedy - a case of political bravado gone wrong? Malta had six options but made the wrong choice

15 December 2013

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"Documents, maps and eye-witness accounts seem to indicate that the Maltese government took what was the riskiest and least logical of the six choices it had available on 11 October, when the country was charged with coordinating the rescue of hundreds of Syrian migrants off Lampedusa. Any of the other five choices could have prevented the migrant tragedy, but all the available evidence leads to the conclusion that Malta had tried to rescue the migrants on its own, instead of asking for the assistance that was available."

See the article: Lampedusa tragedy - a case of political bravado gone wrong? Malta had six options but made the wrong choice (Malta Independent, link)

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