The body of a Libyan national was found in a migrant camp near Sarajevo; Bosnia, according to the Sarajevo Times newspaper.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sarajevo Canton stated that during the investigation, “no traces of violence were observed on the body, and an autopsy will be performed on the order of the prosecutor.” The migrant who was found was a 31-year-old male.
“On 10 April, it was reported to the Ilidža Police Department that a body had been found, and the doctor of the Institute of Emergency Medicine confirmed the death of the mentioned person,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced.
The investigation was carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office, police officers, and an authorized medical expert. The Ministry of Interior stated that work on documenting the event continues.
On Saturday, the Chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Libyan Parliament, Suleiman Al-Hariri expressed his “deep concern and frustration with the European Union’s biased policy towards the migration crisis,” holding it accountable for the “aggravation of the humanitarian situation in Libya.”
In a statement, Al-Hariri stressed that the EU’s “policy of intercepting migrants at sea and returning them to Libya cannot alleviate the crisis,” indicating that Libya, which is suffering from political and economic crises, “cannot address the crisis of illegal immigration flows on behalf of Europe.”
The MP indicated that “the poor conditions experienced by the designated Libyan institutions with immigration, foremost of which is the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, have become unable to provide food and medical assistance to the thousands of illegal migrants, who are returned to Libya on a daily basis. Not to mention the outbreak of serious diseases among those migrants.”
Al-Hariri demanded that the migrants be returned to a third country to address the crisis.
On the other hand, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) NGO denounced the “bias of the EU against migrants,” and called upon the block to suspend cooperation with the Libyan authorities.
HRW said the EU “should implement strict human rights due diligence in its funding to third countries until they stop sending people to places where they face abuse and inhumane detention conditions.”
It added that the “contrast between the resolution on Libya adopted this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), and the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s final report detailing violations and abuses in Libya is staggering. UN experts documented in the report a wide array of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Libyans, and migrants stranded in Libya. But the HRC’s feeble resolution, instead of insisting on accountability for abuses, limited itself to supporting UN capacity-building, and technical assistance to the government in Tripoli.”