The guards had tried to shoot out the tires of four cars, which tried to illegally cross the border at speed. Six alleged smugglers and 11 migrants were arrested. September 2016 14 September: The Egyptian Navy announced they have stopped two fishing boats bound for Europe carrying a total of 440 migrants during the Eid al-Adha holiday in the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate. The boats were later diverted back to Alexandria, were the migrants received medical care by the authorities. The seized fishing boats were later refereed for prosecution. 21 September: In the 2016 Egypt migrant shipwreck a boat capsized off the Egyptian coast with around 600 refugees on board in the Mediterranean Sea headed towards Europe. 204 bodies were recovered after the tragedy. November 2016 3 November: In the November 2016 Libya migrant shipwrecks around 240 migrants were killed in two capsized boats off the coast of Libya. Aftermath March 2017 17 March: In the wake of tensions between Turkey and several European nations over the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, Turkish interior minister Süleyman Soylu threatened to send 15,000 refugees to the European Union every month while foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has also threatened to cancel the March 2016 EU-Turkey migrant deal. June 2017 16 June : 906 refugees, including 92 women and 25 children were picked up by the Libyan coast guard seven kilometers from Sabratha, Libya on the Mediterranean Sea, according to a Libyan official. September 2017 24 September: The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first nationalist party to enter the German Bundestag since World War II, becoming the third largest party overall and single largest opposition party. The rise of the party was directly linked to Angela Merkel's handling of the refugee crisis. December 2017 18 December: Formation of the first Kurz government with the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) following the Austrian legislative election in October. The FPÖ as well as Sebastian Kurz campaigned against immigration in an election marked by the migrant crisis. January 2018 9 January: 2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks up to 100 migrants went missing when a rubberboat was punctured and sank off the Libyan coast. 27 January: Czech President Miloš Zeman was re-elected after a campaign against immigration, Muslim migrants and EU refugee quotas. The run-off challenger Jiří Drahoš had stated his more moderate opposition to immigration and refugee quotas. April 2018 8 April: The right-wing populist Fidesz