Sea Watch 3 enters Lampedusa. Landed migrants, the commander was arrested

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The standoff on the fate of migrants who had been stuck on the Sea Watch for 17 days ended. Commander Carola Rackete, after a long day waiting for a turnaround, invoking the "state of necessity" for the 40 shipwrecked on board , decided to force the blockade of the patrol boats and around 1.50 the ship of the German NGO, flying the Dutch flag, entered the commercial port of Lampedusa. As they approached the dock, the Sea Watch 3 hit a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat trying to prevent the landing and tightened it against the pier.

Carola Rackete's arrest
Shortly thereafter, the Finance Police got in and at 3:00 am got out and took the captain away by car. He is under arrest for acts of resistance or violence against a national warship, and is punishable by imprisonment for up to 12 years . Carola Rackete will go under house arrest, decided by the Procura of Agrigento that accuses her of resistance and violence to a warship and attempted shipwreck.



Carola Rackete would have apologized to the financiers after her arrest, admitting that she had made a wrong maneuver in an attempt to dock at the port of Lampedusa. Sources from the Sea watch report. The apologies would have arrived in the barracks of the Guardia di Finanza where the German captain, now under house arrest in the island's reception center, was detained from 3am last night at 9am, in the commander's office.

Procurator of Agrigento: inadmissible violence
"Humanitarian reasons cannot justify acts of inadmissible violence against those who work in uniform at sea for the safety of all". This was said by the Agrigento prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio regarding the arrest of Carola Rackete,

Paris: Italy takes unpublished solutions
Since the dawn, the 40 migrants still on board have been disembarked between a massive cordon of law enforcement and taken away on board of minibuses. The Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, assured that "they will be distributed in 5 countries" willing to welcome them. And Paris confirms: "France is ready to welcome 10 people in need of protection among those that will be disembarked by the Sea Watch 3, on a par with other European partners who have taken similar commitments", the French Interior Minister said in a long press release Christophe Castaner.

It is "wrong to say that the EU has not shown solidarity with Italy" and in any case now the Italian government, with "the closure of its ports in violation of the international law of the sea", "is taking uncoordinated solutions with its partners Europeans, "said Castaner.

"Defending national borders is not a right but a duty. Italy does not take lessons from anyone or from France in particular," Interior Minister Matteo Salvini responded, adding that "Paris has closed Schengen, it was in the front row to bomb Libya, Abba donated immigrants to Italian forests ".

Luxembourg Foreign Minister: release Carola Rackete
Carola Rackete is released. This is the appeal addressed to Italy by the Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn. In a post on Facebook addressed to the "friend" and colleague Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Asselborn writes that "saving lives is a duty and can never be a crime or a crime. Not doing it, on the contrary, it is".

Moavero's reply: the judiciary is independent
The Foreign Minister, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, responded to his colleague - and friend - Luxembourgish, Jean Asselborn, who with a "letter on Facebook" had asked him to intervene to release the commander of the ship Sea Watch 3, Carola Rackete, arrested early in the morning. "Dear Jean, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, I am responding to your message today in the same spirit of long-standing friendship that binds us, and with the same informal and direct means you have chosen. To the Commander of the Sea-Watch 3 Carola Rackete, an investigation has been opened and measures taken by the Italian judiciary. According to our Constitution, the judges have full independence from the Government ", wrote Moavero through the Facebook page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "With respect and trust - he added - we therefore await the decisions. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank, again, Luxembourg for its willingness to welcome some of the Sea-Watch 3 migrants".

Germany: do not criminalize sea rescue
"Saving human lives is a humanitarian duty. Helping human lives at sea cannot be criminalized. It is up to the Italian justice now to clarify the allegations," said German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass.



Seized ship will be transferred to Licata. Fine from € 16,000 each to commander and owner
The Guardia di Finanza, on the basis of the security decree bis, has raised an administrative fine of 16 thousand euros each to the commander Carola Rackete, to the shipowner and to the owner of the ship flying the Dutch flag. The penalty was from a minimum of 10 thousand euros to a maximum of 50 thousand. The three fined parties may, within 30 days, lodge an appeal with the prefect of Agrigento Dario Caputo or pay the fine. If they do not undertake either of the two initiatives, the same prefect will be able to double or increase the fine up to 50 thousand euros. In the next few hours, meanwhile, the request from the Agrigento prosecutor, Luigi Patronaggio, and his deputy Salvatore Vella, the latter present since yesterday in Lampedusa, is awaiting the validation of the commander's arrest.

Entry into port
The entry of the Sea Watch in port after 17 days had been greeted by the applause of the many activists who had been demonstrating for days the docking, but also from protests, with a group of Lampedusans led by the historic representative of the League on the island, Angela Maraventano, who was shouting "Shame" even at the address of the five parliamentarians on board.

Count: the laws are respected
"I was a good prophet," saying that the Sea Watch case became the jurisdiction of the judiciary, "but not because I had been tipped off but simply because I was a lawyer and I knew the violation was complete, I foresaw penal responsibilities. .There are, whether they like it or not. " Thus the premier Giuseppe Conte on the arrest of the commander of Sea Watch Carola Rackete, at the end of the G20 in Osaka. "I am responsible for the government, I have the responsibility to enforce the laws," he adds.

Salvini: from the criminal conduct commander. "It is an act of war, it cannot go unpunished"
"Criminal behavior of the Sea Watch commander, which put the life of the Guardia di Finanza agents at risk. He did all this with parliamentarians on board including the former transport minister: unbelievable," says Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.

The ramming of the Sea Watch of a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat in the port of Lampedusa "is a criminal act, an act of war" against "men in uniform", the Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, said in a live Facebook. An act, says Salvini, that "it cannot remain unpunished, because we are not anyone's servants".

"I followed hour by hour, minute by minute what happened last night in Lampedusa: fortunately no one got hurt but risked the dead, risked the disaster", the Interior Minister continued on Facebook, speaking of Sea Watch, which "tried to crush a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat against the dock, to crush it". "Other than saving lives, they threw the mask, they are criminals along with human traffickers who buy arms and drugs with that money," says the minister. And on Carola Rackete he says: "If as I hope the trial will take place, the young lady will spend her time in jail otherwise the expulsion decree is already ready in the direction of Berlin".

The support of the parliamentarians of the left-wing opposition to the commander of the Sea watch, is "out of the world, the voters will decide," says the minister.

Di Maio: a sovereign state has laws and enforces them
"I find the escalation of insults and offensive tones recorded in the last hours absurd. I do not understand the need to set up this media circus. A sovereign state has laws and enforces them. Point. The captain will be judged by judges on base of the laws of the Italian State ". Luigi Di Maio writes about the Sea Watch case. "There is anger and I understand it. Understanding it does not mean feeding it, because otherwise anger turns into violent insults" that "must always be condemned".

Thirty: "Very serious act of the commander"
"What Carola Rackete did, commander of the Sea Watch, was very serious. Not only because he disobeyed the Guardian of the Finance Department, violating the laws of the Italian State, but above all because he did it risking irreparable damage to our men and women in uniform, who carry out their work every day by sacrificing their lives, to protect our security. My greatest recognition goes to the Armed Forces and to the various branches of the state that participate in maintaining our internal security. it is right that the media tones should be subdued and that the Judiciary should proceed ". Thus the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta.

"What I want to say - he adds - is that today's episode and the developments of these days now also transcend the migratory emergence itself, before which Europe must irremediably open its eyes, but take the form of a violent provocation to our laws and to our country. In this sense, the government will never lower its guard, condemning at the same time every form of insult! I renew my thanks to all the soldiers and civilians who daily do their utmost for the good of the community! " , concludes Trenta.

Zingaretti: from Salvini a show, the government creates problems
"It ends in a climate of dramatic tension and in the only way it could end, namely with the landing of the 42 castaways in the port of Lampedusa, a mismanaged and exclusively propaganda affair by the Interior Minister Salvini", says the Secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, commenting on the facts of the Sea Watch. "The landings continue every day but this is the only government in the world that does not solve problems, it creates them by contrasting principles that should live together as security, legality and humanity. Now the Judiciary verifies and investigates to establish whether have been crimes. I thank the Guardia di Finanza and the police, to whom our solidarity goes, for the work carried out in a very difficult situation, always with extreme professionalism ".

Delrio: by law you can violate the law
"The judicial authority will take its course and establish the judges if the captain has really committed a crime." So Graziano Delrio of the Democratic Party on RaiNews 24 from Lampedusa. "As you know, in the event of a state of necessity you can also violate the laws - he adds -. The captain is responsible for the safety of all the people on board, his choice must be respected, as the path that will do justice".

Parolin: "Saving lives is polar star"
"I believe that human life must be saved in any way, that is. So that must be the guiding star, then everything else is secondary" said the Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, responding to journalists, in Potenza, at the conclusion of the Mass celebrated on the last day of the Feast of the Catholic newspaper "Avvenire".

The NGO: proud of the captain
Entering the port of Lampedusa even without the authorizations "was a decision of the Sea Watch crew" and not only of the captain, said the lawyer of the German NGO, Leonardo Marino. "We are proud of our captain, he acted in the right way. He insisted on the law of the sea and brought people to safety," said Sea Watch CEO Johannes Bayer.

The last video of the captain
Carola Rackete announced in the night with this video message the intention of forcing the blockade, entering the port and bringing down the 40 migrants, since no solution to the stalemate was in sight.