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    The €8,000 ticket: the migrants crossing the Mediterranean by yacht

    Wealthier migrants and refugees – doctors, lawyers, professors – can pay for a level of safety and comfort that others can’t afford
    by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo Sep 14, 2017 3 minutes
    The yacht Maco, seen here docked in Augusta, Sicily, was intercepted in mid-March about 70 miles off the Italian coast, carrying 21 migrants. Photograph: Nadia Shira Cohen

    Only the wealthiest migrants and refugees could afford to pay for a voyage on the 10-metre yacht that sailed under a Ukrainian flag.

    Today that sailboat is under police guard along with a dozen other luxury vessels impounded at the Sicilian port of Augusta. Its former skipper, Andrej, has recently been released from prison after serving a one-year sentence for aiding illegal immigration.

    Andrej, 35, a Ukrainian, was convicted for transporting 30 migrants from Turkey to Sicily, landing on a small beach in the

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