Daniel Howden, Central Mediterranean: European Priorities, Libyan Realities, newsdeeply.com, oct. 2017

(...) "Six months later, in April 2015, a succession of shipwrecks culminated in the largest single loss of life in the Mediterranean when a 90ft (27m) boat thought to be carrying nearly 900 people capsized, leaving only 28 survivors. The following month, the military operation EUNAVFOR Med was launched by the E.U., aimed explicitly at disrupting the “business model of human smuggling and trafficking networks.” But while Triton and EUNAVFOR Med both conducted search and rescue, it was not the..