Fifty-eight migrants aboard the #Aquarius NGO rescue vessel will be trasported to Malta and from there to France, Germany, Portugal and Spain, after a deal was reached to share the responsibility for the arrivals among EU member-states. #Malta & #France again step up to solve #migrant impasse. 58persons to disembark in international waters,be distributed in…
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Salvini refueses Aquarius access to Italian ports
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said that the NGO migrant search-and-rescue ship Aquarius will not be allowed access to Italy’s ports, ANSA news agency reports. “Aquarius NGO ship with another 141 immigrants on board: German owned, rented by French NGO, foreign crew, in Maltese waters, flying the flag of Gibraltar,” Salvini wrote in his Twitter…
Flows of migrants continue to stream to Italy
Diciotti Italian coast guard vessel arrived in the Sicilian port of Catania with 932 migrants and two bodies on board. Another rescue ship is waiting off the coast of Libya for instructions on where it should go transport migrants. The Diciotti was part of seven operations organised by the European Union to pick up migrants…
MSF vows to continue transporting migrants to Europe
At arrival to port of Valencia (Spain) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) running the Mediterranean rescue operation on vessel #Aquarius gave press-conference, criticising the EU governments, and vowing to ignore the laws and continue to transport migrants from African coast to Europe. “The MSF team is determined to continue saving lives, and resist the intimidation…
EU laudits Spain for reception of migrant vessel
The EU Commissioner on Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos welcomed the decision of Spanish government to accept the vessel #Aquarius with 629 migrants on board transported from Libyan coasts to Italy. The Italian and Maltese governments repelled #Aquarius, belonging to NGO, which is notorious for exercising the transportation of illegal African migrants to Europe, abusing maritime law of…
#Aquarius: Spain accepts vessel with illegal migrants
Today the European Commission attempted to reduce the tensions around the notorious illegal migrants transport vessel #Aquarius repelled by Italian authorities, to a bilateral issue between Rome and Valletta. Spanish new Prime minister Pedro Sanchez stretched his had to Brussels, saving the EU image, while the solidarity between the member-states on illegal migrants issue is crumbling….
Mediterranean migrant route arrivals at rise
With favorable weather migrants from North African coast continue to arrive to Europe. On Sunday (27/05/2018) 500 passengers of three boats were rescued to be transported in safety to Spain. The Spanish report was preceded by the one from Italy where over the same weekend 1500 migrants were rescued. Three of the boats intercepted on…
‘Aquarius’ continues to rescue migrants in Libyan waters
According to the information released by #Aquarius vessel crew they rescued 73 men, women and children from a rubber boat in international waters off of #Libya. Everyone is safely onboard, the vessel continues partoling. Image: illustration. BREAKING: This morning the #Aquarius has rescued 73 men, women and children from a rubber boat in distress in international…
Hundreds of migrants rescued in Libya waters
Aquarius, the vessel of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), saved 421 migrants, mostly from Eritrea. There is no further information in what European port they will bring the migrants. #Aquarius now has 421 people on board from today's rescue, with over 40% females. There are 60 unaccompanied minors & 26 kids under 13-years-old – the youngest just 3-days-old….
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