(Check here for background information about this commemoration of people who died as a result of Fortress Europe’s policies against undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers).
Fortress Europe recorded deaths for July 19th:
- 19/07/01 1 Nguyen Thi Nga (34) from Vietnam, fell from window in refugee centre in Mespelbrunn (Germany) for fear of deportation
- 19/07/03 21 N.N. bodies, unknown nationalities, drowned, found dead off the coast of Libya
- 19/07/04 1 Sergey Barnuyck (31, man) from Ukraine, suicide, hanged himself in Harmondsworth Centre (Great Britain) in fear of deportation
- 19/07/07 52 N.N. bodies, from Ghana/Guinea/Liberia, drowned, 150 miles south Tenerife (Spain) in rough sea while Spanish boat tried to rescue them
- 19/07/08 1 N.N. (boy) from Nigeria, died of starvation, body thrown overboard during the way to Italy
Total 76 deaths on July 19th since 2001. Source.
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