114:. Alarm Phone Initiative then observes the reactions of the coast guard and documents the progression of every emergency from the emergency call to the rescue. If, despite repeated reminders, the employees “have the feeling that they will not be rescued immediately”, the Alarm Phone Initiative tries to put pressure on the coast guards and politicians with a message that is distributed via mailing lists. In addition, the activists try to fill the satellite telephones on board the refugee ships with money in order to be able to guarantee the functionality of these. These funds are also used in so-called push-back campaigns.
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The activists had already asked in an open letter in April 2016 that all refugees be evacuated from Libya by ferry to Europe, where they should be granted unconditional protection without being subjected to an inhumane asylum procedure that has lost its original purpose and become only one another
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