Fears of new Black Sea migration route after Romania intercepts asylum boat
Romanian coastguard authorities catch fishing boat carrying Iraqi and Syrian asylum seekers
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Grenzpolizei setzt Schusswaffen gegen Migranten ein
Eine Schlepperbande versuchte, illegale Migranten mit zwei Autos von Serbien nach Rumänien zu schleusen. An einer Polizeisperre hinter der Grenze schossen die Polizisten auf die Fahrzeuge – es gab mehrere Verletzte.
Roumanie : la Mer Noire, prochaine voie d’accès à l’Europe pour les migrants ?
Migrants et réfugiés sont toujours plus nombreux à arriver en Roumanie. Une nouvelle voie d’accès à l’Union européenne pourrait même se mettre en place, depuis les ports turcs de la Mer noire jusqu’aux côtes roumaines. Pour l’instant, la plupart des interpellations de migrants se concentrent néanmoins dans le nord-est du pays, près des frontières serbes.
▻https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Refugies-Roumanie-mer-Noire
Syrian refugees stopped at unlikely route to Romania
Security forces intercepted 150 Syrian refugees who boarded a fishing boat to Romania from the Black Sea city of #Kastamonu on a route probably used for the first time by migrants trying to reach Europe.
▻https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2017/08/30/syrian-refugees-stopped-at-unlikely-route-to-romania
In fuga attraversando il Mar Nero. Ora i profughi sbarcano in Romania
Siriani e iracheni, chiusa la rotta balcanica, cercano nuove vie per l’Europa
▻http://www.lastampa.it/2017/08/31/esteri/in-fuga-attraversando-il-mar-nero-ora-i-profughi-sbarcano-in-romania-Su2FtNi8GBrD6WuofRx3yM/pagina.html
Le nuove rotte dei migranti. Dopo la stretta in Libia cambiano i percorsi per entrare in Europa
Dal Marocco alla Spagna, dall’Algeria alla Sardegna. Ma anche dalla Turchia a Lesbo o a Costanza, sul Mar Nero. Così gli scafisti si attrezzano per forzare il blocco
▻http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/09/03/news/le_nuove_rotte_dei_migranti_dopo_la_stretta_in_libia_cambiano_i_percorsi_
#Espagne #Maroc #Sardaigne #Algérie
Romania Seizes Third Migrant Boat in Black Sea
Romanian coastguards seized another boat containing migrants on Sunday, amid fears that the country is becoming a new migration route to the West.
▻http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/romania-seizes-third-migrant-boat-in-the-black-sea-09-04-2017
Romania stops migrant ship on emerging Black Sea smuggling route
People smugglers search for new ways into Europe as security tightens
▻https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/romania-stops-migrant-ship-on-emerging-black-sea-smuggling-route-1.32094
Roumanie : un bateau avec 87 migrants intercepté en mer Noire
Un bateau de pêche transportant 87 migrants a été intercepté dimanche en mer Noire, près de la côte roumaine, troisième incident de ce type depuis la mi-août. Observé au large, à 14 milles marins du littoral roumain, le bateau n’a pas répondu aux avertissements de la police qui a envoyé deux embarcations pour l’escorter jusqu’au port de Midia. À son bord se trouvaient 48 hommes, 16 femmes et 23 enfants. Des démarches pour établir leur nationalité et l’origine du bateau sont en cours.
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/09/03/97001-20170903FILWWW00123-roumanie-un-bateau-avec-87-migrants-intercepte-en
Roumanie: plus de 200 migrants interceptés en mer Noire
La Garde côtière roumaine a intercepté en mer Noire deux bateaux transportant plus de 200 migrants, l’un ayant été escorté jusqu’au port roumain de Mangalia (sud-est) et l’autre pris en charge par les autorités turques, a annoncé samedi la police aux frontières.
Le bateau de pêche saisi par la garde côtière roumaine a été observé samedi matin à un mille marin de la frontière maritime roumano-bulgare et du littoral bulgare. Il avait à bord 97 personnes occupant « tous les ponts » de l’embarcation : 40 hommes, 21 femmes et 36 enfants. Ils « ont déclaré être des ressortissants iraniens et irakiens », a précisé la police.
C’est le quatrième bateau transportant des migrants saisi par les autorités roumaines en mer Noir depuis la mi-août.
▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1071708/roumanie-plus-de-200-migrants-interceptes-en-mer-noire.html
Romanian Coastguard stops boats with hundreds of refugees
Boats carrying more than 200 refugees were stopped by the Romanian Coastguard on Saturday, according to reports in Austrian and Romanian publications. According to those, a boat with 97 asylum seekers, including 36 children, who said they were Iranian and Iraqi, was located close to the Bulgarian border, in Romanian waters.
▻http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/09/10/romanian-coastguard-stops-boats-with-hundreds-of-refugees
Smugglers make test runs with migrants across even more deadly Black Sea route
Rise in boats intercepted by Romanian coastguard fuels fears that smugglers are trying to reactivate dangerous transit passage to Europe
Roumanie : nouvelle embarcation de migrants secourue en mer Noire
Midia (Roumanie) - Plus de 150 migrants ont été secourus dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi en mer Noire, au large de la côte roumaine, alors que leur bateau était en détresse, ont constaté des journalistes de l’AFP.
▻http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/monde/roumanie-nouvelle-embarcation-de-migrants-secourue-en-mer-noire_1942946.htm
Smugglers test migrant Black Sea route to Romania
Smugglers are possibly looking to reopen a Black Sea migrant smuggling route between Turkey and Romania, with hundreds of people having already arrived by boat over the past few weeks.
Et voilà que #Frontex publie un communiqué sur la Mer Noire...
Do the increased arrivals in Romania mean the opening of a new route via Black Sea ?
While it is too early to talk about opening of a new migratory route, the recent incidents of intercepted wooden boats with migrants on the Black Sea suggest that smugglers might be looking to revive this route.
Et publie les #chiffres et #statistiques...
Arrivals to Europe via Black Sea (évidemment, uniquement de celles et ceux qu’ils ont interceptés... ce qui signifie que maintenant il y a aura plus de contrôles, et du coup, plus de personnes interceptées)
2014 - 433
2015 - 68
2016 – 1
2017 - 572
Migrant routes: ‘The Black Sea is more dangerous than the Mediterranean’
A new migration route to Europe is seeing the day - the crossing via the Black Sea, north of Turkey. In less than a month, 500 migrants have been intercepted in Romanian waters in their desperate attempts to reach the European mainland. Human rights activists are trying to warn of the perils involved in the dangerous crossing.
▻http://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/5314/migrant-routes-the-black-sea-is-more-dangerous-than-the-mediterranean
Old route, new dangers: Migrant smugglers revive Black Sea route to Europe
An IRIN investigation exposes a rising trend of migrant-smuggling from Turkey to Romania over a notoriously dangerous body of water
▻https://www.irinnews.org/feature/2017/10/16/old-route-new-dangers-migrant-smugglers-revive-black-sea-route-europe
Black Sea - The new route for refugees passing through Turkey
Refugees crossing the Aegean sea into Greece have tailed off since the EU-Turkey deal came into effect. But migrants are now using another, more dangerous path.
▻https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/black-sea-the-new-route-for-refugees-passing-through-turkey-10904
Romania: increasing number of sea arrivals – collective expulsions at land border
The report, written by Felicia Nica with support from the Jesuit Refugee Service Romania, documents emerging obstacles to access to the territory in the course of 2017, with a total of 1,386 cases considered as collective expulsions reported on the Serbian border from April to December 2017. At the same time, Romania has witnessed an increase in sea arrivals through the Black Sea in the second half of the year. Following high numbers of arrivals, the number of asylum seekers applying for protection in Romania has more than doubled from 1,880 in 2016 to 4,820 in 2017. The vast majority of applicants originated from Iraq, followed by nationals of Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
▻https://www.ecre.org/aida-2017-update-romania-increasing-number-of-sea-arrivals-collective-expulsio
#renvois #expulsions #push-back #refoulement
Afghan refugees in Syria forced to move on to Romania
Thirty years after they fled their homeland, Muhammad Hussain and his family found themselves caught up in conflict again.
