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15 Ago 2021

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Mediterranea Saving Humans

EU deals with contractors in order to surveil migrants

Sovereign Global UK, a company owned by the businessman Fenech, who was arrested for violating the embargo on the sale of arms to Libyans, appears in the ESA’s Rapsody project, which is supposed to control the Mediterranean with drones.

...The drones will have powerful cameras capable of filming and taking pictures of the waters, images to be used for Search and Rescue operations, an activity that in...ibya means trying to save the lives of thousands of migrants crammed into fragile rubber dinghies. Or...turn them over to the Libyan Coast Guard, to send them back to the detention centers in Tripoli...

The project has as main contractor the Portuguese company Tekever, which is specialized in drones...Alongside these companies there is England’s Sovereign Global UK...it is a piece of a holding company created in 2013...It has a well-known specialization in the industry: private security, contracting and arms supply...