Alex, seized the ship. The captain investigated. Alan Kurdi to Malta

• Migrants, the ship Alex is in Lampedusa. Salvini: "Accomplices of human traffickers"
• The sailing ship Alex in Lampedusa. Spokesperson ong: "Get down immediately, unsustainable psycho-physical state"
• Migrants, the sailing ship Alex towards Lampedusa. Alan Kurdi also asks to enter the port
• Interior Ministry: Alex refuses to go to Malta, provocation. They just want impunity
• Alex ship to Lampedusa: "Imposto stop"
• The spokeswoman of Mediterranea: impossible to reach Malta

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At 1.30 am, the Alex migrants from the Mediterranea ship docked since yesterday afternoon in the port of Lampedusa. A liberating applause started from the Favarolo pier for the turning point which came after the notification of the probation of the ship by the Guardia di Finanza handed over to Captain Tommaso Stella, investigated for aiding illegal immigration

The migrants, 46 as confirmed by Mediterranea sources, were taken to the hotspot where many are already found after the repeated 'ghost' landings.

Seized ship, investigated the captain
The provision for seizure of Mediterranea's "Alex" ship moored at the Favarolo wharf was notified shortly before one. The provision of initiative of the Guardia di Finanza was formalized to Captain Tommaso Stella, "who appears to be the only suspect for aiding illegal immigration", explained Mediterranea, "and not the entire crew".

The news that the mission head of the Alex boat of the Mediterranean NGO, the Italian Left MP Erasmo Palazzotto, was also included in the list of suspects was spread later. And that for the Procura of Agrigento it is "a duty".

News subsequently denied by decision in a Mediterranea tweet. "Judicial and police sources clearly deny that, in the current state of affairs, in addition to Captain Tommaso Stella, the Head of Mission on board the Alex of Mediterranea is also investigated," reads the official account of Mediterranea. Which in another tweet adds: "Yet another dirty attempt to pollute information on Mediterranea".

The person concerned says: "I still haven't been notified of anything, I learned from journalists. We expected it, it already happened with the Ionian Sea that the commander and the head of mission were investigated. I am not afraid, it is a we have been the first to turn to the judiciary to ask for an investigation to be opened ".

Search the boat
The search that the Guardia di Finanza carried out last night on the Alex boat of the Mediterranean NGO lasted almost 4 hours. A search that was carried out after the landing of all migrants. Documents have been acquired and it is possible that in the next hours the videos made by the journalists who were on board the ship will also be acquired. The informative report will then, probably within today, be transmitted by the yellow Flames to the Procura of Agrigento.

Salvini: it is not true that the rescue boat had problems
"Here is one of the many lies of the NGOs on the left: the rescue boat had no problem". Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared this via Twitter, referring to the landing carried out during the night in violation of the ban on entry into port by the government.

Mediterranea: Salvini wanted our scalp
"There was a clear political will not to give us another chance. The decision to divert us to Malta was pure political propaganda that wanted to treat people like potato sacks. Salvini just wanted our scalp." Mediterranea spokeswoman Alessandra Sciurba and head of mission Erasmo Palazzotto said this during a press conference in Lampedusa, responding to all the Viminale's accusations about the story of the ship Alex. The head of the mission then explained that he had made the decision to enter the port at Lampedusa when by now there was a "health emergency" and a situation that was unsustainable from the point of view of hygiene, with the only two baths out of use.

"Cynical who says rubber dinghy not in difficulty. Traffickers paid by the Italian government"
"Who says that this dinghy was not in trouble should come and see for itself: how can you be so cynical?" Thus the spokeswoman for Mediterranea Alessandra Sciurba, at a press conference. "I wish you were in front of a dinghy with 50 people with children, some of them very small, and saying 'There are no problems'. When should we intervene? How can we be so cynical and cruel to do political propaganda?" Then: "The traffickers are favored by the policies of this government, because they are paid twice in Libya: first of all by the Italian government that has refinanced a hallucinating mission, as these militias are those that sometimes disguise themselves as Coast Guard, they recapture people and bring them back to the centers: traffickers paid indirectly by the Italian government and directly by migrants ".

Docking at Lampedusa after the "state of necessity"
The Mediterranean NGO sailboat had arrived in port yesterday afternoon escorted by a coast guard raft and a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat. Alex had declared "the state of necessity" on board and decided to force the blockade imposed by the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Two women and a minor immediately went down to be transported to the medical center in Lampedusa.

The story of Rainews correspondent Angela Caponnetto on the ship

Salvini's controversy against Trenta and Tria
And on the sailboat Alex is a clash between Matteo Salvini and the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta, a controversy that also affects the Economy Minister, Tria, responsible for the Guardia di Finanza. "I feel a little lonely," says the owner of the Interior Ministry. "We will discuss in the next few hours about the presence of Italian military ships in the Mediterranean. I ask the leaders of the Armed Forces and the Guardia di Finanza if the defense of the borders is a right-duty on the part of the institutions or not". Salvini pointed out that "I can indicate a safe harbor and block an unauthorized landing but the armed forces at sea do not depend on me. If they serve as escort for the outlawed ships, let's ask ourselves then about the use of these military units." "I will ask the Ministers of Defense and the Economy to help us in this battle of civilization and legality to save lives - Salvini added - I would like them to be at our side, alongside the Italian people, otherwise it is a very dangerous precedent. the entry ban and they enter and no one stops them. What good are military ships if not to patrol the borders? "

Viminale-Defense strike and response
The reply came through Defense sources: "For days we have offered support to the Interior Ministry on the situation of these hours and the Interior Ministry has rejected it on more than one occasion. These are the facts". Words that followed the rejoinder of the sources of the Ministry of the Interior, according to which the support of the Italian military naval units "is necessary to block the ships that want to bring the illegal immigrants to Italy and not to help them in the transport". But the Defense insists: "With reference to the Viminale's reply, it is specified that the support offered, as already specified yesterday, concerned the transport of migrants to Malta. If the Interior Ministry had accepted, the migrants would already be in Malta. It is a mystery also for us the refusal expressed by the Interior Ministry ". Then: "Enough attacks on the military. We demand respect." And again the Interior Ministry replies: "The Interior Ministry did not act alone and did not refuse the collaboration of other ministries, starting with the Defense, so much so that Alex & Co had an open dialogue with the Guardia di Finanza and the Coast Guard. is that the boat of the NGO has always refused to enter Maltese waters and claimed to be accompanied by the Italian authorities up to 15 nautical miles from La Valletta, to then immediately leave and avoid the checks and the law of a member country of the Union European. "

Tria: intervene with the judiciary
"What happened" with regard to the story of the ship Alex "and the successful docking are the prerequisites for the intervention of the judiciary". This is what is read in a note by the Economy Minister, Giovanni Tria. "The minister - the note specifies -" has followed the operations of contrast to the clandestine immigration put in place by the Guardia di Finanza that, in adherence to the dispositions of law and to the ministerial directives imparted in this regard, has implemented all the necessary prescriptions , between dissuasive maneuvers and numerous intimations of alt, to enforce the prohibition of entry into the territorial waters and of docking at the port of the motorship Alex "." All this - adds Tria - was carried out always having in mind the safeguard and safety of the people on board and the safety of navigation which, in this case, appeared to be compromised due to the high number of people crammed on board and on deck, such as to prevent further maneuvering with respect to those carried out ".

Mediterranean after the seizure: we will find another way to resume the sea



Ship Alan Kurdi heads for Malta. Valletta: do not enter our waters
On the other hand, the ship 'Alan Kurdi' of the Sea Eye NGO changed course to Malta last night with 65 more migrants on board, after the captain was notified by the Guardia di Finanza of a ban on entering Italian territorial waters. But even Valletta warns: the ship does not enter our waters. "The authorities will indicate to the armed forces of Malta what appropriate action will be taken" if Alan Kurdi were to enter the Maltese waters anyway, an Armed Forces spokesman said.

Sea Eye 3: three migrants collapsed in the heat. Malta authorizes landing
"While Alan Kurdi is waiting outside the closed port of Malta, three of the migrants on board collapsed in the heat and are subjected to acute medical care," said the NGO Sea Eye, adding: "we urgently need medical assistance and a safe harbor for all those aboard (I am 65, ed) in order to prevent the worst ". The Maltese authorities have authorized the landing of these three migrants. Between them two are minor.