The new Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, has issued a directive to the heads of the Police Forces and the Port Authority to inform the operational divisions in the territory that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with verbal notes to the two embassies of the flag States (Norway and Germany), noted that

the pipelines of the two ships Ocean Viking and Humanity 1

currently sailing in the Mediterranean

are not "in line with European and Italian regulations on border security and control

and on the fight against immigration. illegal". 

On the basis of the UN International Convention on the Law of the Sea, such conduct will be evaluated for the purpose of

prohibiting entry into territorial waters

. 

We remind you that the Ocean Viking ship from 2019 is used by the NGO Sos Mediterranée for

rescue missions of migrant people in the Mediterranean

and is equipped with a medical center.

The Humanity 1 ship is used by the Sos Umanity, a search and rescue organization at sea that works to

ensure that no one dies while escaping across the Mediterranean

.