By empowering Libyan warlords and constraining rescue missions, migrant numbers to Italy have halved. But at what cost?
On 10 May, in the early European summer, a rescue vessel patrolling the Mediterranean Sea came across a familiar sight: a wooden boat overcrowded with migrants. It headed over to give out life vests when a Libyan warship passed them at high speed before seizing the passengers.
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