MV Louise Michel<p>While boat drivers are labeled and criminalised as smugglers, the real traffickers, like Libyan warlord and torturer Gheniwa, who came to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a> not long ago unscathed, or Almasri before him, remain untouched. </p><p>No one who had to pass through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lybia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lybia</span></a> and its prisons to cross the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CentralMed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralMed</span></a> can deny having been subjected to systematic violence, torture, sexual harassment and rape. </p><p>How can the Italian government equate captains and the people who actually are on the boats with those who profit from their suffering like Gheniwa and Almasri? The latter take flights, sometimes state owned, their entry is accepted and their health is taken care of.</p><p>We ultimately need safe escape routes and human rights for all. Human trafficking and the criminalization of people on the move must finally be brought to an end.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SAR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreedomOfMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfMovement</span></a></p><p>Photo2: GettyImages, 3 ANSA</p>