Life jackets were placed on Valletta monuments during the night to raise awareness on migration issues.    

10 life jackets were placed around the city. 14,500 is written on each one representing the migrants who drowned in the central Mediterranean since 2014. 

Young activists responsible for the stunt called on the Maltese government to #stopthedying. We cannot continue to build walls and fortresses around Europe. We cannot stop the movement of people by allowing their deaths. 

Keith Bonnici, a Maltese recent graduate, asks “Why is it that we remember the names of 12 European men drowned in Tunis Bay in 1864, but none of those who drown today?” 

Jessie Seal - a student at the University of Malta and crew member of Search and Rescue ship  'Iuventa' said; 'I have met boys with bullets in their feet from the Libyan camps. Libya is not a safe place to keep people and I will not allow our governments to do dodgy deals to fund mafias and militias in Northern Africa'.