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Migrant rescue ships won't dock in Italy vows Salvini

27 novembre 2018 | 13.20
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Migrant rescue ships won't dock in Italy vows Salvini

NGO rescue boats will not dock at Italy's ports, hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini pledged on Tuesday after three charities announced they were resuming operations off Libya amid a spike in migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.

"Our NGO friends can go where they like, but they won't be coming to Italy," said Salvini, who closed Italian ports to rescue ships in June.

"When boats return which knowingly or unknowingly abet traffickers, they are doing them a favour," he said.

Sea Watch, Proactiva Open Arms and Mediterranean announced on Friday that they were launching a joint rescue operation for migrants off Libya's coast.

Supported by a reconnaissance aircraft, the fleet will carry out joint search and rescue in the central Mediterranean and document human rights violations, the charities said, accusing European Union countries of shirking their international legal obligations towards migrants.

“We do not want to live in a Europe that has turned its maritime border into a mass grave as a deterrent and has its Libyan bouncers do the dirty work," said mission chief Johannes Bayer.

"As long as the EU lets people drown in the Mediterranean, we will continue to go to sea.”

The Sea-Watch 3 rescue vessel had been unlawfully detained in Malta for four months, Seawatch stated.

The last migrant rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean, the Acquarius, chartered by the Doctors without Borders (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee charities, has been stuck in Marseille's port since Panama in September revoked the right to fly its flag, allegedly following a request from Italy's far-right, anti-establishment government.

Last week, MSF said Italy ordered the seizure of the Aquarius for allegedly dumping 24 tonnes of potentially toxic waste at its ports, passing it off as ordinary garbage.

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