Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean | A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Where the law of the land ends, the story begins. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ian Urbina returns with a new season of his riveting podcast anthology, The Outlaw Ocean, which explores the most lawless place on earth — the vast unpoliceable ocean. In this episode, the Libyan Coast Guard is doing the European Union’s dirty work, capturing migrants as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean into Europe and throwing them in secretive prisons. There, they are extorted, abused and sometimes killed. An investigation into the death of Aliou Candé, a young farmer and father from Gineau-Bisseau, puts the Outlaw Ocean team in the cross-hairs of Libya’s violent and repressive regime. In this stunning three-part series, we take you inside the walls of one of the most dangerous prisons, in a lawless regime where the world’s forgotten migrants languish. More episodes of The Outlaw Ocean are available here: https://link.mgln.ai/drilled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Drilled.
0:10.3	This is a special bonus episode brought to you by the CBC's The Outlaw Ocean.
0:15.6	It's a riveting anthology podcast hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ian Urbina.
0:20.7	And it brings us urgent
0:21.7	stories from the vast, beautiful, and largely lawless open seas. You're about to hear the first
0:28.3	episode of the Outlaw Ocean Season 2. It's about the migration crisis currently unfolding
0:33.8	in the Mediterranean Sea. In today's episode, you'll hear about an investigation that follows one rural farmer from Guinea-Bissau.
0:41.7	Take a listen.
1:07.0	Thank you. Did he have a ballpark sense of how many shots he heard fired during the whole incident? How many of what you have heard?
1:09.0	No, no, I don't have not calculated.
1:11.6	Three, five?
1:12.6	It's more than five.
1:14.6	More than five.
1:15.6	Minimum five, more than five.
1:18.6	And the shooting did it occur over the course of one minute, ten minutes?
1:23.6	It's a long time.
1:25.6	It's more than 10 minutes.
1:29.1	No more than 10.
1:40.5	In 2021, over 30,000 migrants arrived in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
1:46.4	Many of these migrants came from sub-Saharan Africa, and when they try to head to Europe,
1:54.5	they often go to Libya. Libya is a popular place for them to launch across the Mediterranean because the trip is relatively short, and the traffickers there in Libya simply charge less
2:00.8	than they do in places like
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