03/06/2019 (Agence Europe) – Two lawyers filed a complaint on Monday 3 June against the EU and Member States before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, murder, torture, inhuman treatment and forced displacement of migrants trying to flee Libya, according to Le Monde. Omer Shatz, a member of the Global Legal Action Network, and Juan Branco, a lawyer and well-known polemicist, denounce policies "aimed at stopping migration flows to Europe at all costs, including the murder of thousands of innocent civilians fleeing an area of armed conflict". Since 2016, the EU had also, by its reported support for the Libyan coastguard, "orchestrated, directly and indirectly, the interception and detention of the 40,000 people" who had successfully left Libya. The Commission has assured in its defence that its policy has succeeded in saving thousands of lives and that the problem is rather the networks of smugglers exploiting these people. (SP)