EU migration policy aims to stem migration flows from Africa at all costs. With a 90% decrease in arrivals to EU soil, this policy is highly successful.
It is also genocidal. The costs in human lives and rights are unprecedented: 20,000 deaths in the Mediterranean and 50,000 survivors in “concentration camps-like conditions” in the past 5 years. And counting.
EU migration policy constitutes a flagrant breach of all the international and European law frameworks regulating migration and borders: refugee, human rights, maritime and criminal law.
For the first time since WWII, European institutions, governments and officials are committing countless crimes against humanity.
These atrocious crimes are targeting the most vulnerable population on earth: civilians in need of international protection.
Front-Lex reinstates the Law at Europe’s borders by holding the EU, its Member States and their officials responsible.
Through legal actions and public trials, we will seek to terminate EU migration policy, provide remedy for its victims, and hold the culprits to account.
Front-Lex is organising a civil tribunal in Brussels in 2022 on the liabilty of the European Union, its institutions, agencies and members, and of individual politicians responsible for crimes against humanity at EU-borders: Asylum and Migration Tribunal. Please join!!
The Asylum and Migration Tribunal (AMT) is an ambitious new project:
An initiative taken by refugee organisations and outraged individuals.
Since the numerous protests against the homicidal European deterrence policy towards refugees – rightly called Europe’s disgrace by some – have remained ineffective, we shall be forced to take legal action against those responsible.
The European Union, its members and associates, their governments, ministries, responsible policy makers, and functionaries should be held accountable for their crimes against refugees in the Mediterranean and at the EU borders.
This project is inspired by the International Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague 2016, which reunited hundreds of participants from different continents. Witnesses, victims, and experts described the violation of workers’ and consumers’ rights, the health injuries as well as the damage to Nature this multinational corporation has caused by spreading its toxic chemicals all over the globe through criminal activity. This tribunal attracted considerable attention. A small group of five renowned and recognised expert judges unanimously agreed on a legal opinion, which constitutes a precedent in the fight against the crimes of a multinational corporation.
Numerous scientific studies confirm what is already obvious: refugees are forced to choose dangerous routes because legal and safe pathways are blocked.
Countless injuries and deaths have been recorded by NGOs as well as official international agencies.
When the European Union and its members withdrew their sea rescue efforts, many rescue organisations documented the violation of human rights and the failure to provide help for persons in distress at sea facing mortal danger. This is one of the main charges for the Tribunal.
Technical investigations have recently brought to light concrete evidence for physical injuries, repression, and other violations, made known by journalists and social media. Furthermore, there is growing evidence and criticism of the complicity by European states and institutions in human rights abuses by buffer states like Libya, to where EU border control has been externalised.
For the Tribunal, we want to assemble a group of renowned judges from European countries in order to hear expert reports, statements by refugees, and their advocates’ pleas.
The possible charges (failure to help, accessory to murder, violation of sea rescue regulations, human rights abuse etc.) will be thoroughly examined by lawyers and experts beforehand.
The experts’ assessment and the final legal opinion of the judges will provide a legal basis for subsequent trials.
The Tribunal will also rehabilitate aid agencies, sea rescuers, and refugee workers who have been wrongly criminalised. Assistance is a human duty, not a criminal offence. Preventing people and civil organisations from giving aid, on the other hand, is inhuman. Those responsible must be held accountable.
We will create a European documentation centre and connect organisations and individuals working in the Mediterranean or at the external borders in order to share their knowledge and experience.
Our goal is to collaborate with righteous members of the European Parliament willing to actively support our cause.
