{"id":129024,"date":"2024-03-19T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/missing-migrants-families-say-they-were-asked-to-pay-hundreds-for-information-on-relatives\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:10:29","slug":"missing-migrants-families-say-they-were-asked-to-pay-hundreds-for-information-on-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/missing-migrants-families-say-they-were-asked-to-pay-hundreds-for-information-on-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing migrants\u2019 families say they were asked to pay hundreds for information on relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129024\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nFamilies of people who disappeared on the perilous journey from Africa to Europe have said they were asked to pay hundreds of euros in exchange for information about what had happened to their loved ones.In interviews with the Guardian, three families recounted how, as part of their searches for missing relatives that had gone on for years, they had made contact with people they believed to be connected to an NGO in southern Spain who said they were able to help them.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the families said they were asked to hand over at least \u20ac200 (\u00a3170) with the promise that they would receive information about the whereabouts of their relatives. One person said he was promised photographs of his relative\u2019s body in a police morgue. None of the families paid the funds. Their allegations highlight the obstacles that the families of migrants often face as they attempt to trace the steps of their missing relatives, from navigating foreign bureaucracy and language barriers to the lack of centralised data or uniform process for dealing with the thousands who die each year attempting to cross into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation published by the Guardian in December revealed how this legislative void had resulted in people being buried in unmarked graves across the EU at a scale unprecedented outside war. The lack of any formal procedure, combined with the desperation of families to obtain any news of their loved ones, has created a terrain that is ripe for exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>A relative of an Algerian man who went missing more than a year ago said he was asked for \u20ac250 by a man who said he would be able to enter a police morgue and take a picture of the body of his relative. \u201cIt was really bizarre,\u201d said the relative. \u201cHow can these men have access to the corpse when this is not the case for those who have relatives that have disappeared?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person, whose family member set off from Algeria in 2020, said his family was asked to pay \u20ac200 after being told that his missing relative was in a prison in the Canary Islands in Spain. The family hired a lawyer who was unable to verify this claim. The relative said he was also told not to contact police as it could jeopardise efforts to locate missing loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>For the brother of a man who left Algeria in 2021, the request for \u20ac200 allegedly came after he was told that the small boat in which his sibling had been travelling had been sent to a secret location as it was deemed to contain \u201cdangerous contents\u201d. The money would allow him to obtain information about the prison or detention centre where his brother was being held, he said he was told. \u201cThe problem is that the authorities are not that helpful,\u201d he said. It paved the way for those who had spotted an opportunity to take advantage of these families, he added. \u201cAfter three years we haven\u2019t had any news. We just want to know where he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/missing-migrants-families-say-they-were-asked-to-pay-hundreds-for-information-on-relatives\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/missing-migrants-families-say-they-were-asked-to-pay-hundreds-for-information-on-relatives\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/missing-migrants-families-say-they-were-asked-to-pay-hundreds-for-information-on-relatives\/\">Missing migrants\u2019 families say they were asked to pay hundreds for information on relatives<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5250,2350,7235,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-129024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canal","tag-english","tag-migrants","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}