Italian Interior minister Matteo Salvini signed an order banning the Mare Jonio migrant transportation vessel from entering national waters. The order refuses the Mare Jonio from entering, transiting or stopping in Italian waters, according to Lega party closed ports policy for NGO ships operating in Mediterranean to provide migrants from Libya coasts with reliable and effective transport…
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Lifeline NGO imposes migrants on Malta
Italy‘s interior minister Matteo Salvini is refusing a German NGO rescue ship #Eleonore carrying 100 migrants an opportunity of docking. Matteo Salvini continues an effective policy of protection of Italy maritime border, as well as a strategy of the imposition of solidarity on the other EU member-states, leaving Rome for too long alone to resolve the problem…
Italy ends NGO planes search operations
Italy has stopped two planes used by NGOs to search for migrant boats navigating from African coast to Europe in the Mediterranean. Neue Eskalation: Italien verweigert Starterlaubnis und hindert damit die Flugzeuge #Moonbird und #Colibri an der #Seenotrettung. https://t.co/5RgkL39l4V — Matthias Monroy (@matthimon) August 27, 2019 The planes – Moonbird and Colibri – have been…
‘Ocean Viking’ migrants enter EU
The Ocean Viking vessel which has been navigating in the Mediterranean for fortnight with migrants from Libyan coast on board will dock in Malta after six EU countries reached an agreement, France‘s interior minister said on August 23. UPDATE: 356 survivors rescued in the #Mediterranean are now being transferred from the #OceanViking to #Malta on…
Prosecutor orders seizure of Open Arms vessel
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (Socialist) has sent a vessel to escort Open Arms from the surroundings of Lampedusa to Palma, Mallorca. This gesture has been intended to end standoff between the Italian Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini (Lega), and the NGO, transporting migrants from Libyan coast to Italy. https://twitter.com/Hispantv/status/1163886680916615171?s=20 Salvini vowed to upgrade the problem…
Open Arms migrants receive Hollywood-style support
The Spanish ship Open Arms has been stranded off Italy‘s island of Lampedusa for eight days because none of the EU governments is willing to accept any number of migrants from the group of the 121 passengers navigated from Libyan coasts. #RichardGere arrives to support #OpenArms #SAR ship with over 100 migrants on board https://t.co/fe4kW8gJmU —…
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…
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…
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…
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