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©  Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP | Migrants wait to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France, on 19 September 2025.
Libya's coast guard receives funding from Europe to patrol Mediterranean waters and intercept migrants - but recent reports indicate a spike in the use of heavy-handed methods and active threats | Photo: Ximena Borrazas/SOPA/picture-alliance
File photo: Migrants who disembarked at the port of Roccella Ionica, in Calabria | Photo: ANSA/ANTONELLO LUPIS
The automatic electronic passport control at Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci airport, Rome | Photo: ANSA/TELENEWS
The bodies of at least 61 migrants have been recovered in western Libya over the past two weeks | Source: EMSC www.emsc.gov.ly