A vessel run by Italian NGO Alex Mediterranea has ignored an order to stay out of Lampedusa port, navigating to dock on the island after transporting 41 migrants from Libyan coast. Second rescue ship docks in #Lampedusa with 41 migrants despite Italian ban#Italy pic.twitter.com/KLdI8FehVu — Ruptly (@Ruptly) July 7, 2019 The migrants transported from Libyan coast seeking…
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Alan Kurdi vessel ignores Italy refusal
The ‘Alan Kurdi‘ vessel run by NGO migrant rescue picked up 65 migrants off Libya coast. The German NGO Sea-Eye said they would also ignore the refusal of Italy to land, and navigated to Lampedusa, where they wish to drop anchor and land passengers. It is the second boat this week, which ignores the orders of…
Mediterranea captain disobeys Italy orders
The Italian NGO Mediterranea‘s Alex migrant rescue vessel carrying 54 people picked up in Libya waters on July 4 has been stopped off Lampedusa according to a landing ban issued by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, ANSA news agency sources said on July 5. “The vessel of the NGO, which by this time would have arrived in Malta…
Italian Socialist Sassoli new Europarl president
Italian MEP for a decade, former journalist David-Maria Sassoli has been elected as the new president of the European Parliament. #EPlenary #Sassoli Europarl new president:“We needed more democracy, more European parties”. pic.twitter.com/nH1vCnhx5t — Anna van Densky (@AnnaVanDensky) July 3, 2019 Mr Sassoli, (63) received the support of 345 out of a total of 667 MEPs…
ISIS fighter repatriated to Italy
An Italian foreign fighter was repatriated on after being arrested in Syria, ANSA news agency reports. (Image above: illustration). Samir Bougana, (25) from Moroccan origin, allegedly first fought with militias affiliated to Al Qaeda and then with ISIS. Italo-Moroccan foreign fighter Samir Bougana has been repatriated from Syria to Italy and placed under arrest by Italian…
Italy insists Dutch assuming responsibility for SeaWatch3
Carola Rackete, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 migrant-rescue ship, has been put under investigation by prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Agrigento, Italian media reports. 🔵 WATCH: Our 11 o'clock press conference, in the headquarters of @Stampa_Estera in Rome, with a live connection to captain #CarolaRackete on board #SeaWatch3. https://t.co/anyTjrgMEL — Sea-Watch International (@seawatch_intl)…
Salvini trades barbs with Sea Watch NGO
Italy Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has criticized the Sea-Watch NGO after it refused to take 52 migrants collected off Libya this week to Tripoli. The Sea Watch 3 vessel, which is close to the Italian island of Lampedusa, at one stage seemed to have turned towards Malta, but Salvini said it is not navigating there. 🔴Ho…
Caravaggio masterpiece at auction soon
Disappeared for several centuries, rediscovered in Toulouse (France) in 2014, the painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ‘Judith and Holofernes’, the authenticity of which has been the subject of a long debate, should reach peaks at the auction of June 27. "Maybe this one is even the greatest of the background curtains and in #Caravaggio's…
Migrants continue to arrive to Italy
An Italian merchant vessel, the Asso 25 that transported 62 illegal migrants to Pozzallo in Sicily. (Pictured above). Alarm Phone NGO wrote on social media that they the Maltese authorities did not provide any assistance when they were informed on the goings on in the search and rescue area. The landing of the #Asso25 in #Pozzallo is a…
Hundred migrants arrived to Genoa
An Italian navy ship ‘Cigala Fulgosi‘ docked in Genoa transporting to Italy 100 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea next to Libyan coast, where the number of migrant crossings has grown in recent weeks due to summer weather conditions. After many hours of navigation, the @italiannavy ship "Cigala Fulgosi" just arrived in #Genova with on board the…
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