Shifting media coverage of NGO rescue operations
A report on the coverage of search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean shows that Italian media has shifted drastically from a positive coverage of NGOs' work to suspicion this year.
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Migrant funds attracting mafia: Italy prosecutor
Catania prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro told Italy's parliamentary anti-mafia commission Tuesday that there was a "mass of money" kept aside for migrant reception and that mafia organizations were getting attracted by it.
MSF claims EU policies foster trafficking
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said the EU aids human traffickers through its policies and that it deliberately avoids conducting rescue operations for migrant boats in the Mediterranean. MSF denied last week's accusations from a Catania prosecutor that it was engaging in direct contact with traffickers.
No evidence of NGO-trafficker links : Siracusa prosecutor
A prosecutor in the Sicilian city of Siracusa has said there was no evidence of links between NGOs rescuing migrants off Libya and migrant traffickers, even as Italian bishops blasted the "indiscriminate political fire" being trained on the non-governmental organisations.