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"It is a pity that by using our pictures like that, we have been associated with the transport of the refugees. Naturally, we have nothing to do with smuggling humans," commented Tallink Silja spokeswoman in Finland Marika Nöjd to the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.

She said that Tallink has connected Facebook and reported of unauthorised use of the pictures.

The names of their pages euphemistically conjure images of tourism companies or advocacy groups, rather than smuggling routes that are bearing record numbers of migrants across the Mediterranean.

“Asylum and immigration to all of Europe – helping people in immigration and asylum” is the tagline for a second Turkish network. A third group, “Travel aid”, offers fake visas and passports, while a fourth smuggler, based in Egypt, calls his group “The way to Europe”, and illustrates its page with an image of Moses parting the Red Sea.