Nervous crime in port – dispute over migrants: NGO ship is suing Italy

The Italian government’s decision violates human rights and could be challenged in court, the aid organization said. The captain had announced via email that he will “stay with the survivors in Catania until they all disembark”. “I cannot leave the port of Catania. We have to find a solution here. It would be against the law to take the survivors away, my lawyer told me. The castaways on board are in a state of depression and apathy “We are very concerned about their mental health. It is difficult to explain to them what is happening here and I cannot understand it myself because it is against the law,” Joachim Ebeling told journalists.

Thriller about different rescue ships
357 people were also allowed to disembark from the rescue ship Geo Barents. It is still unclear what will happen to the 215 people who had to stay on the ship. Meanwhile, two more rescue ships are waiting to land: the German rescue vessel Rise Above with 90 people on board and the Norwegian Ocean Viking with 234 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. They are both not far from Sicily. You have not yet received a landing permit.

The action of the new Italian right-wing government of Giorgia Meloni, which no longer wants to take in the migrants rescued from the Mediterranean and sees the flag states of the ships an obligation, has been met with sharp criticism. “A selective disembarkation is currently taking place in the port of Catania. Castaways, already exhausted by cold, fatigue, trauma and torture, are considered objects by the will of the government of Giorgia Meloni. Unfortunately!” Italian left-green list member Aboubakar Soumahoro, who was in the port of Catania, wrote on Twitter. About 30 activists, including some left-wing parliamentarians, demanded that all rescued migrants be disembarked at the quay.