Watch The Med - Alarm Phone
If you, or someone you know, are in a distress situation at sea, you can reach us on +33 4 86 51 71 61. We support the struggle for Freedom of Movement.
19/02/2024
In the second half of 2023, Alarm Phone was alerted to 653 boats in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea. Over the whole year, we were alerted to 1,203 boats in this region – an unprecedented number of cases, nearly doubling the number of the previous (record) year of 2022, when we assisted 673 boats.
The increase in cases is also a reflection of the overall increase in migratory dynamics in the central Mediterranean Sea, with more than 157,600 people succeeding in subverting Europe’s violent borders and reaching Italy by boat. In the four summer months alone, more than 83,000 people crossed the sea – figures that we have not seen in this region since around the mid-2010s. When we look back to the year of 2023, we can thus speak of a long summer of migration in the central Mediterranean.
In this analysis, we focus on the central Mediterranean route via Tunisia, which has seen a sharp increase in migratory dynamics in 2023. Especially from Sfax, hundreds of boats left and reached Lampedusa. In reaction to the many crossings, border violence along the Tunisian route increased as well. We also provide a comprehensive chronology of the last six months of 2023, offering in great detail an account of developments as they unfolded. As nobody else is doing so, we need to create our own archive of migrant struggles, acts of solidarity, and forms of border violence at sea.
Also in 2024, we promise to continue in our struggle alongside people on the move. In our daily practice, we struggle against borders, for ferries, not Frontex, and the freedom of movement for all.
2023: A long Summer of Migration in the Central Mediterranean Sea - Alarm Phone Introduction In the second half of 2023, Alarm Phone was alerted to 653 boats in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea. Over the whole year, we were alerted to 1,203 boats in this region – an unprecedented number of cases, nearly doubling the number of the previous (record) year of 2022, when ...
11/10/2023
🟣Today, the Alarm Phone turns 9 years old!
300 activists, on both sides of the Mediterranean, have run this hotline for people on the move non-stop, day and night, 24/7, assisting 7,192 boats in distress.
Read our anniversary statement here 👇
Against all odds and all barriers: 9 years Alarm Phone! - Alarm Phone Today, the Alarm Phone turns nine years old. 300 activists, on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea, have run and maintained this distress hotline for people on the move. Non-stop, day and night, 24/7. During these nine years, we have assisted 7,192 boats in distress along the different maritime esca...
11/10/2023
Spendenaufruf!
Für die Kommunikation auf See sind Satellitentelefone unverzichtbar. Diese lebensrettenden Anrufe kosten bis zu 8€/Minute, das bedeutet an manchen Tagen bis zu 500€ Telefonrechnung. Bitte spendet, damit wir weiter Menschen in Seenot unterstützen können!
Alarm Phone: Seenotrettung benötigt Spenden für steigende Telefonkosten Um mit Menschen in Seenot Kontakt zu halten, sind wir auf Satellitentelefone angewiesen. Jeder lebensrettende Anruf kostet 1-8€/min. Eure Spende ermöglicht uns, internationale Netzwerke zu knüpfen und Menschen auf dem Weg nach Europa zu unterstützen.
11/10/2023
Appel aux dons!
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/alarmphone-solidarite/
Pour rester en contact avec les personnes en détresse en mer, les téléphones satellites sont indispensables. Ces appels coûtent jusqu'à 8€/min, certains jours jusqu'à 500€/jour. Aidez nous financièrement à poursuivre notre travail!
11/10/2023
Donation call!
https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/127506-alarm-phone-sea-rescue-hotline-needs-donations-for-rising-phone-costs
To stay in touch with people in distress at sea, satellite phones are essential. Life-saving calls cost up to 8€/min. On busy days our phone bill reaches 500€. Please donate so that we can continue to support people at risk of drowning:
27/09/2023
The 8th issue of is out: "Struggles for Freedom of Movement”!
With 112 landings in in a single day, 12 September 2023 marked a new level of border subversion through the Central Mediterranean.
Read the report here:
ECHOES Issue 8, September 2023 – CivilMRCC ECHOES Issue 8, September 2023 ECHOES Issue 8, July 2023: STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT 8 – CMRCC Echoes – Struggles for freedom of MovementDownload
Le guide en ligne Welcome to Europe a été mis à jour !
fournit des contacts de structures de solidarité et des informations utiles pour les personnes en déplacement. Aidez-nous à le diffuser largement !
No border no nation- diffusez l'information!
www.w2eu.info
Check it out: the Welcome to Europe webguide has been updated!
provides contacts of solidarity structures & useful information for people on the move. Please help spread it widely!
No border no nation - spread information!
www.w2eu.info
21/08/2023
Alarm Phone statement!
110 people called us when they were in the Search and Rescue zones of Malta and later Greece. Now they are imprisoned in Libya, abducted by a Libyan militia, Europe’s partner in migration control and border crimes.
110 people escaping Lebanon abducted to Libya! - Alarm Phone On 18 August, Alarm Phone was in contact with a boat carrying about 110 people on board, including 40 children. They had fled from Lebanon and were trying to escape to Italy. They had reached the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone of Malta when they told Alarm Phone at 14:56h CEST that a vessel with […]
18/08/2023
As a new and broad constellation of actors we will continue to organise and advocate until the charges in against Abdalla, Amara, and Kader are finally dropped.
Free the !
01/08/2023
🚩Our new Central Mediterranean Analysis is out!
It covers the period 1 Jan to 30 June 2023 during which we were alerted to 539 boats - a new record. The analysis covers the violent developments on and off the shores of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Italy and Malta.
This increase in distress calls to Alarm Phone shows that more and more people ‘on the move’ rely on activists as they know that state authorities cannot be trusted and relied upon. In fact, many have been traumatized in encounters with European actors and their northern African allies. Pushbacks, forms of non-assistance and abandonment, as well as violent attacks have become routine and everyday occurrences in the central Mediterranean Sea. For us, though, they will never be normalized. We will do our best to fight against those who prefer to force people back to inhumane conditions or to let them drown at sea than to assist their arrival to Europe.
Continuous landings, increasing violence and deaths at sea - Alarm Phone Introduction Between 1 January and 30 June 2023, Alarm Phone was alerted to 539 boats in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea. The busiest month in the first six months of the year was April, when people on 133 boats reached out to our network. We can expect that by the end of 2023, we […]
📃“The people on board tell us that several people have already drowned. The boat is very overcrowded and the people are panicking. They are calling urgently for help. ❗Please send rescue immediately❗”
(email excerpt - 21 June, 00:37)
This was already the fourth email we sent. Shortly after, we were informed that the Moroccan Navy was responsible for rescuing. But Moroccan authorities didn’t reply to our calls or Emails until the morning. The morning, when only 24 of the 61 people were found alive 💔.
Another shipwreck that could have been avoided! Only a week after hundreds of people were left to drown near Pylos, Greece. Another 34 lives that wouldn’t have been lost in the Atlantic, if there were no borders arbitrarily crossing the seas!
◾We are in deep grief and anger!
◾We will bring our anger to the place, where the killing is orchestrated!
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