THE European Union is complicit in “crimes against humanity” because of its support for the Libyan coastguard, a migrant rescue charity said today following the killing of a Sudanese man whose escape from Libya was intercepted by the EU-funded operation.

Doctors from the intergovernmental group International Organisation for Migration (IOM) witnessed the tragedy on Thursday after the coastguard disembarked 103 migrants in Tripoli.  

In a statement condemning the killing today, the IOM said the shooting occurred as the migrants resisted being sent back to detention centres.