European Union border agency
Frontex on Wednesday said it was a "a paradox" that fully a
third of migrant rescues in the Mediterranean were made by NGOs.
Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said this was "quite strange" when
"there have never been so many public vessels deployed in the
sea by the EU and Italy". The quota picked up Frontex is only
12% and that of Eunavfor Med only around 10%, he said. NGOs have
been accused of helping migrant traffickers by going very close
to the Libyan coast in response to migrant phone calls.
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