” “” “The "slaughter" of migrants and refugees at the gates of the European Fortress is not stopping. 243 people died in December, 1,861 throughout 2007. At least 11,750 victims since 1988. This has been reported by Fortresse Europe, an observatory on the victims of immigration that since 1988 has monitored the number of victims at the borders. According to Fortresse Europe, December has been one of the months with the highest number of victims: 120 in the Aegean Sea, 96 on the routes for the Canary Islands and 17 along the Algerian coasts. According to the statistics published today, the umber of arrivals has remarkably decreased all along the southern border except in Malta, Cyprus and Greece , because of the people sent back to sea by the agency Frontex and because of the arrests of migrants all over Northern Africa. "Under some agreements, like the one Italy has just signed with Libya for a joint patrolling it reads all migrants who will be caught from now on will be sent back to the Libyan ports, regardless of the 2005 warnings of the European Court of Human Rights. In the meantime, on December 21st, the Schengen zone has moved eastwards, adding nine new European countries. And the EU has already taken care of funding the new policemen, thus building a virtual wall between Slovakia and Ukraine". ” “
