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The Italian prosecutor in Agrigento made the decision after a visit aboard the boat that had been waiting in front of the port of Lampedusa Island for 19 days with about a hundred migrants on board. Given the situation on board, the magistrate decided to place the ship in escrow and disembark everyone.
After an inspection of the judicial police and two doctors, the Agrigento prosecutor, Luigi Patronaggio, himself boarded the Open Arms , decided shortly after his return to the mainland that the survivors had to be unloaded in the next few hours on the small Sicilian island. The tense situation on board requires it, he believes.
Stationed since Thursday a few hundred meters from the coast of Lampedusa, these migrants were denied access to the island by the Italian authorities, although six European countries (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania and Spain) have committed to welcoming them.
A little earlier, in a desperate gesture, fifteen or so of the hundred migrants collected jumped into the water to try to reach the island to swim. They were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and brought to the island.
The Italian prosecutor has also taken the decision to put the Open Arms in receivership, as part of an investigation against X for kidnapping of persons, omission and refusal of official acts, which Matteo Salvini said on Facebook. it is aimed directly at him.
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The taxation of Agrigento dictamina desembarco inmediato de todas las personas a bordo #OpenArms en el puerto de #Lampedusa and the provisional incest of the barco.
For the end, it was the pesadilla y las 83 personas a bordo recibirán asistencia inmediata en tierra pic.twitter.com/z4rYtTmtP0
Faced with the refusal of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to let them land, Spain, the country of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms that charters the boat, ended Tuesday by sending a military ship to Lampedusa to come take directly in charge of the migrants and bring them to Mallorca, about one thousand kilometers from Sicily. The boat is gone and its mission is not called into question by the decision of the Italian justice, reports our correspondent in Madrid, François Musseau.
The ship Audaz , one of six Spanish military ships, which can carry up to 2.5 tons, took off from the Rota base in Andalusia, heading for the island of Lampedusa that the ship is expected to join in three days, that is Friday, August 23rd. Unless, of course, the Italian decision to board the Open Arms humanitarian ship forces Madrid to change its mind and demand the return of its military ship.
But for now, the interim government led by Socialist Pedro Sanchez has the intention to take the situation in hand. According to his executive, this is a humanitarian emergency that has lasted for almost three weeks, and this government considers that it is partly in his responsibility since the Open Arms boat is flying the Spanish flag, and is owned by of the Catalan humanitarian association of the same name. An association that absolutely does not inspire confidence in Madrid, which believes that it is certainly authorized to transport humanitarian aid, but in no case to fish migrants at sea in Italian waters.
Another open conflict, that between Spain and Italy, whose authorities, says the government of Pedro Sanchez, are " a shame for Europe ." " What Salvini does about the Open Arms is a shame for humanity, " Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles denounced in the press, pointing to " exclusively electoral purposes ."