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Sea-Watch Migrant Rescue Boat Defies Salvini, Heads for Italy

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06/26/19
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The Sea-Watch 3 NGO boat carrying migrants rescued in the Mediterranean said Wednesday it was headed for Lampedusa island despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy’s far-right interior minister.

“I’ve decided to enter the port of Lampedusa,” Sea-Watch quoted Captain Carola Rackete as saying in a tweet. “I know this is risky, but the 42 shipwrecked on board are exhausted. I will bring them to safety.”

Marine tracking websites confirmed the vessel had entered Italian territorial waters after spending 14 days sailing back and forth off the coast of Italy’s southernmost island.

“Enough, we’re entering. Not to provoke, but by necessity, responsibility,” Sea-Watch tweeted.

Salvini has tried to ban the Dutch-flagged vessel from approaching under a “closed ports” policy, which has seen migrants repeatedly stranded at sea.

This is the captain of Sea Watch. This is the woman taking a risk in the name of a greater law and a greater justice than any that the #EU has created.
ps://www.thelocal.it/20190625/sea-watch-captain-threatens-to-bring-stranded-migrants-to-italy-to-end-limbo … pic.twitter.com/0wKYTYASmR

— Maaza Mengiste (@MaazaMengiste) June 26, 2019

“We will use every lawful means to stop an outlaw ship, which puts dozens of migrants at risk for a dirty political game,” Salvini said on Facebook after Sea-Watch said it was headed for Italy.

“I will not give permission for anyone to disembark … Our patience is over. The Netherlands will answer.”

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg declined Tuesday to intervene but called on Italy to “continue to provide all necessary assistance” to vulnerable migrants.

The German NGO Sea-Watch had asked the ECHR to impose “interim measures” on Italy, saying the court could ask Rome to take urgent steps to resolve the standoff in order to “prevent serious and irremediable violations of human rights.”


‘Like a Prison’

Salvini said Tuesday the vessel could “stay there until Christmas and New Year” but would never be allowed in.

Of the 53 migrants initially rescued by the Sea-Watch 3 off Libya on June 12, Italy took in 11 vulnerable people.

Salvini earlier this month issued a decree that would bring fines of up to 50,000 euros ($57,000) for the captain, owner, and operator of a vessel “entering Italian territorial waters without authorization.”

On Lampedusa, where Salvini’s far-right League won 45 percent in May’s European elections, a priest has camped in the street to demand those on board – including three minors – be allowed to disembark.

Dozens of German cities have said they are ready to welcome them, and the Bishop of Turin, Cesare Noviglia, said Monday his diocese would be willing to take them in.

“We can’t hold on any longer. It’s like we’re in a prison because we are deprived of everything. Help us, think of us,” one migrant from the Ivory Coast said in a video broadcast by Sea-Watch.

In January, 32 migrants rescued by the vessel were stranded on board for 18 days before they were allowed to disembark in Malta thanks to a distribution deal made between several European countries.


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