Christian groups seek inquiry after migrants killed at EU borders

Published: 2005-10-20

OXFORD, England (CNS) -- Four Catholic groups and two other Christian organizations have demanded a judicial inquiry after at least 13 illegal migrants were killed and dozens injured while attempting to enter Spanish territory in North Africa. "As churches and Christian organizations working on migration and asylum, we are deeply concerned about the dramatic events at Ceuta and Melilla," said a letter signed by the six organizations. "These events at the EU-Moroccan border represent the latest example of more and more people's desperate, often deadly, attempts, to reach the European Union." The letter, sent to the European Union's Justice and Home Affairs Council, was signed by representatives of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community, Caritas Europe, Jesuit Refugee Service, the International Catholic Migration Commission, the Quaker Council for European Affairs and the ecumenical Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe.

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