A picture taken yesterday in Ventimiglia, near the Italian-French border post, shows the makeshift camp set up by a group of migrants that has been denied entry into France.
Mogherini: The targets are not the migrants, the targets are those that are making money on their lives and too often on their deaths.

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Luxembourg
The European Union will use submarines, warships, drones and helicopters in an operation to gather intelligence on gangs who smuggle thousands of asylum-seekers to Europe from Libya, officials said yesterday.
EU foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Luxembourg to launch the operation even though it will be limited to intelligence-gathering for now because it has yet to obtain UN authorisation.
The operation is part of a stepped-up European response to a surge of migrants from Africa and the Middle East making the dangerous crossing from Libya to Europe.
Many have drowned in the Mediterranean, including around 800 killed in a shipwreck in April.
The operation, as initially envisaged, was intended to disrupt the migrant traffickers’ business and to capture and destroy their ships, possibly even in Libyan waters.
But the EU would require a UN Security Council resolution and consent from the Libyan authorities to operate in Libyan territorial waters and coastal areas and it has neither so far.
“Let me be very clear: The targets are not the migrants, the targets are those that are making money on their lives and too often on their deaths. It is part of our effort to save lives,” EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told reporters.
She said the 28-nation bloc had responded quickly to the crisis washing up on its southern shores.
“I am impressed by the unanimity and speed with which we have put this together,” Mogherini said as she arrived to chair the foreign ministers meeting.
About 10 countries have offered five warships, two submarines, three reconnaissance aircraft, two surveillance drones and three helicopters for the operation, as well as around 1,000 military personnel, an EU official said.
The planes and ships would begin moving into international waters off Libya “in the coming days” but it would take a month for the mission to be fully up and running, the official said.
Reflecting the potential dangers, the EU official said merchant ships outside Libyan territorial waters had twice recently been attacked by fighter aircraft using rockets and coastal artillery, and armed traffickers had threatened people trying to save migrants.
If the EU ships come across migrants at sea, they will help rescue them.
EU officials still hope for Libyan consent and a UN resolution later that would allow them to tackle the traffickers.
The EU would only be able to move to more aggressive actions if EU foreign ministers gave the go-ahead.
European members of the UN Security Council had been drafting a resolution to approve the EU operation under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows the use of force.
But diplomats said the work was put on hold earlier this month pending Libyan consent to the operation, a major obstacle because two rival governments and parliaments are fighting for control there.
Gaining Libyan consent may depend on UN-brokered peace talks reaching an agreement on a national unity government.
Mogherini recalled that the EU is doing everything possible to broker an accord between the Libyan factions on a government of national unity but progress appears limited.
Russia, a permanent and veto-wielding UN Security Council member, has made clear it wants to see Libyan consent before any resolution is passed.
A senior EU official who asked not to be named said that commanders were aware of the dangers in the operation, noting the presence of the Islamic State group in Libya and recent attacks on merchant shipping by the rival factions.
Mogherini stressed that the military option should be seen as only part of a broader strategy to deal with a problem taking on Biblical proportions.
Some 100,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean so far this year, most of them landing in Italy, Greece and Malta which all want their EU peers to share more of the burden.
The European Commission has proposed that 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum-seekers in Europe should be redistributed and that 20,000 Syrians living in camps outside Europe should be resettled across the 28-nation bloc.
Ministers last week failed to reach agreement on the Commission’s proposals, with many member states wary over migration which has become a hugely sensitive political issue driving gains for far-right and eurosceptic parties.
“As the EU, we are determined to contribute to save lives, dismantle the networks of the smugglers of human beings and address the root causes of migration,” Mogherini said.