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EU boosts migrant smuggling, says Libyan coastguard
By EUobserver
The Libyan coastguard told Sky News that the EU's Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean encourages people to risk their lives to seek a better life in Europe. "People, when they get rescued, call their friends to tell them that there are EU vessels only 20 miles from Libyan waters to save them," said Colonel Tawfik Alskir, Libya's head of coastguard operations.