Exclusive: Transcripts of conversations between Italian officials and Libyan coastguard contained in leaked file
At 8.18am on Friday 16 June 2017, the Libyan coastguard Col Massoud Abdalsamad received a long-distance phone call from an Italian coastguard official who told him that 10 migrant dinghies were in distress, many in Libyan territorial waters.
“It’s a day off,” Abdalsamad told the official. “Perhaps we can be there tomorrow.”
