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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
The picture shows the ship Nadir of the NGO RESQSHIP while it rescues a rubber dinghy with migrants on board off the coast of Lampedusa | Photo: Resqship/Elena Elefante