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17 August 2019 "As far as this Imrcc is concerned, there are no impediments to landing". The General Command of the Coast Guard wrote to the Interior Ministry, to the Ministry of Infrastructure and to the Foreign Ministry in relation to the Open Arms asking "urgently" for an answer on the landing of migrants.

The request of the National Center for the Coordination of Maritime Rescue follows the warning that the lawyers of the Spanish NGO have sent to the General Command asking "to authorize the entry of the Open Arms into the port of Lampedusa without further delay".

The NGO: "On the ship dramatic situation"
"The Open Arms ship has been at sea for 134 days with 134 people on board. The situation on the ship is dramatic: for 15 days women, men and children have been living in confined spaces in fear and uncertainty about what will happen. who experienced the horror of detention camps in Libya: torture, rape, forced labor, they have already endured enormous suffering, we cannot add more. " It is the complaint of Oscar Camps (Open Arms) and the founder of Emergency, Gino Strada. "In recent days the conditions of mental and physical health have further deteriorated with acts of self-harm and suicide threats that make the situation unmanageable and endanger the lives of people on board. We need to act in the coming hours - they say - We ask that it be immediately authorized the landing in Lampedusa before adding other tragedies to those already lived ".

The prosecutor investigates for kidnapping
The Procura della Repubblica of Agrigento has opened an investigation file - against unknown persons - for kidnapping the story of the Open Arms. This is a "consequential act" after the statement formalized by the lawyers of the Spanish NGO arrived at the Prosecutor's office. The lawyers asked to proceed with kidnapping, private violence and abuse in office deeds.

13 migrants landed
13 people landed from the ship. Yesterday four people were disembarked for medical reasons, after six women and three men had been taken off the ship the day before. The NGO itself makes it known through a tweet, which talks about people getting off "due to medical complications requiring specialized care". Over a hundred migrants remain on the ship. "All the people on board must be urgently disembarked. Humanity imposes it", the NGO reiterates in a Twitter post. The hygienic and sanitary conditions found after a survey of military and health personnel would have been very precarious. The migrants landed last night were taken to the hospital. Among them a migrant from Mali who was initially admitted to the emergency room for a perforated eardrum. Only at dawn, the man was discharged, "but he needs - according to what the Clinic says - more in-depth controls to be carried out in a more adequate structure". Landed - again with the formula of medical evacuation - even a Libyan "who has previous injuries of a firearm, who need specialist care", and finally a migrant who has a cyst that must be removed.

Salvini: the medical emergency on Open Arms is a lie
The medical emergency on board the Open Arms? "Bales". Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said this after Lampedusa's doctor visited the 13 migrants landed, only one of whom had an ear infection. "We are faced with the umpteenth mockery of the Spanish NGO, which for days has roamed the Mediterranean for the sole purpose of gathering as many people as possible to bring them only and ever to Italy - he adds - These NGOs only do political battle on the skin of immigrants and against our country. But I don't give up ". Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry has given a mandate to the State Attorney to challenge the decision of the TAR regarding the ban on entry into territorial waters for the Open Arms.

"No formal steps from EU countries
At the moment "no European country" has made "formal steps" to welcome migrants aboard the Open Arms. This is what sources of the Interior Ministry said after yesterday, Prime Minister Conte said that 6 countries - France, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg - had made it known that they were available to welcome people on board. Italy, adds the Viminale "is still waiting for other states to keep their word and take on those promised in the past".

Mayor Lampedusa: "Ridiculous make them go down with the dropper"
"We are now at the farce, at the ridicule. If there is a serious problem on a ship it is useless for them to let them go down with the dropper". This was stated by the mayor of Lampedusa Salvatore Martello, commenting on the latest developments on the Spanish NGO. "Let them all come down - he says - my speech is always the same a fisherman who needs to take shelter anywhere in the world asks for authorization and they give him shelter. I don't understand why a boat, beyond the migrants on board, who ask to enter the port to protect themselves from the bad conditions, are not given a place to repair themselves. If it is normal - he adds - it means that I have not understood anything in life ". And he warns: "If there are crimes they can evaluate them on the ground".

"Tortured and raped, psyche cannot last long"
Alessandro Di Benedetto, psychologist of Emergency, aboard the Astral sailing ship to support Open Arms, listened to some of their terrible testimonies and explains to the microphone of Rainews24 correspondent Angela Caponnetto because for these people to remain still on board can lead to suicidal instincts