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Migrant boat capsized in Greece

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tickingbird Fri 16-Jun-23 08:24:39

Yesterday it was reported 79 feared dead in this incident. It’s now being reported as breaking news that over 600 feared dead. I can’t understand why it’s not headline news. 9 reported to have been arrested. I wish there could be an international response to people traffickers. They are the ones driving this and getting wealthy on the backs of these migrants and placing them in unsafe boats.

Kim19 Fri 16-Jun-23 16:39:29

Ah.....right G, didn't think of that. Ta. 👍

MerylStreep Fri 16-Jun-23 17:12:56

Mokryna
It takes thousands of hours to break into a burner phone. We only have a certain amount of people working on this.
Perhaps if mi5 could advertise for hackers to come forward it would be done a lot quicker.
I know two but I can’t see them signing up 😉

westendgirl Fri 16-Jun-23 17:36:49

GSM, I find your response of "rubbish "to my recent post very insulting.I had said that I thought international cooperation was needed to stamp out the trafficking gangs.I also questioned your statement " is money more important than innocent lives taken on home soil " and then
~I mentioned something that I had heard, either on the radio or on the T.V. about rishi Sunak, s emphasis on stopping the boats could be contibuting to more people hurrying to get away.That was a report of something I had heard.
I really think perhaps your habit of dismissing other people's posts is getting out of hand. It is bad manners, and we get enough of that in Parliament and completely unecessary

growstuff Fri 16-Jun-23 17:50:22

mokryna

As AI is supposed to be very intelligent, I don’t understand why it isn’t put to work on tracking the money from all these thousands of trafficked people, to find where it goes. This trade could be stopped, and the illegal money be confiscated money. But I can dream.

The UK is part of an international programme called Project Invigor, which is organised by the National Crime Agency for the Home Office. It does hack into networks and recover some money, but it's a huge job and funding is limited.

Germanshepherdsmum Fri 16-Jun-23 18:15:46

westendgirl

GSM, I find your response of "rubbish "to my recent post very insulting.I had said that I thought international cooperation was needed to stamp out the trafficking gangs.I also questioned your statement " is money more important than innocent lives taken on home soil " and then
~I mentioned something that I had heard, either on the radio or on the T.V. about rishi Sunak, s emphasis on stopping the boats could be contibuting to more people hurrying to get away.That was a report of something I had heard.
I really think perhaps your habit of dismissing other people's posts is getting out of hand. It is bad manners, and we get enough of that in Parliament and completely unecessary

My comment was in response to your suggestion that people were bringing forward their journeys because of Sunak’s plans. These boats are always overcrowded - to make the maximum profit for the traffickers. You may have ‘heard something’ - that doesn’t mean it’s a fact.

I don’t have a habit of dismissing other people’s posts - perhaps you could produce evidence to support that claim.

VioletSky Fri 16-Jun-23 18:23:41

Absolutely awful news, especially those poor children

Some of the comments are another level of depressing. I never see comment like this outside gransnet