• Immigration: Open Arms seeks asylum for 31 children rescued from the Spanish embassy in Malta

"We had never done anything like this, requesting asylum for immigrants on the high seas, because we had never had a situation of equal abandonment," they say from Proactiva Open Arms , which implies accepting the uncertain route of the appeal, centered on 31 minors among the 151 rescued immigrants. An exceptional movement once all logic is exhausted.

Who should welcome the castaways? International law is unequivocal in that the nearest country is responsible for the shipwrecked. However, Italy, despite having ratified the Convention of the Law of the Sea and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, appeals to a recent national standard of the Government of Salvini to close its ports to NGOs. Malta also supports this policy. And what (does) Spain do? It insists: Italy must take responsibility, but it does not denounce that behavior before the law court of the Sea of ​​Hamburg, as Open Arms would like, to undertake that initiative it needs the endorsement of National government. Faced with Italian neglect, Spain has assumed, up to four previous occasions, bailouts made by the Open Arms . Today, after months of clashes with the NGO, he refuses to do so. "We are a Spanish ship, Spanish territory in international waters," they cry from Open Arms. What is expected of Sanchez? In early July, after Italy and Malta denied the passage to Alan Kurdi , a ship of the German NGO Sea- Eye, with 65 immigrants, Germany announced that it would host up to 40. Then, they were transferred to a ship in the navy of Malta, which opened its port, only for landing. No immigrant stayed in Malta. That precedent is remembered as a path for Pedro Sánchez. That is, Open Arms asks you to lead the process in Europe. They do not ask for a Spanish port, since it implies four days of crossing and arriving in Spain, the ship would be immobilized, probably. Could they force entry into Italy? The problems of coexistence aboard, and diseases. From today it is expected temporary. «But to be interned in Italy is the last solution. Given the danger of a shipwreck, for example, we could not forbid the passage, although it would be a million fine, the accusation of human trafficking ... », they respond in the Spanish NGO, and leave a jolt in the form of a question: "If instead of immigrants they were from a cruise ship or a fishing boat, how much would it have already moved?"

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