Ninety-nine migrants dead along the routes of illegal immigration to Europe in September alone, 1,096 dead since the beginning of 2007, 43 victims at the Canary Islands; 19 off the coast of Mayotte; 11 between Algeria and Andalusia; 13 in the Channel of Sicily, and 10 in Greece. Two Chechen girls frozen to death as they were crossing on foot the frontier between Ukraine and Poland with their mother. These are the figures supplied today by the Observatory on the Victims of Immigration, Fortress Europe, according to which 98 Iraqis have been sent back from Bari and Ancona in one month, while Turkey and Saudi Arabia are building walls on their borders. In Libya the 600 Eritrean people of Misratah are still in prison, while new roundups are taking place in Zawiyah. Landings are decreasing (-75% in Spain and -7% in Italy) but victims in Sicily are already 500 versus 302 all through 2006.
