The ship ‘Geo Barents’, of the organization ‘Doctors without Borders’, which currently has 572 immigrantsall of them rescued in the Mediterranean, entered the Italian port of Catania this Sunday for the port authorities to carry out the inspection that will determine who will be able to disembark in accordance with the new legislation imposed by the Government of Giorgia Meloni.
In this sense, Matteo Salvini, vice president and head of the Infrastructure and Transport portfolio, signed a decree that only vulnerable immigrants will be allowed to disembark. The rest must remain on board to be subsequently expelled from the country.
This is the second vessel subject to this new standard. The ‘Humanity 1’, from the NGO ‘SOS Humanity’, had 144 immigrants and 35 of them are still not disembarking. According to local media, the ship has been given the order to leave the port, however, the captain refuses to set sail for the Mediterranean, arguing that “it is his duty to complete the rescue of people in danger.”
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The 572 immigrants housed in the ship that has now reached the Italian borders have rescued people in a total of seven operations that took place on October 27 and 29 in rescue competition areas, reports Eph.
In addition to these two ships, there are two others in the vicinity of the city of Catania. One of them is in Italian waters -with 93 immigrants- and la another, still in international waters, the Norwegian ‘Ocean Viking’, has another 234 immigrants.
The Italian Government, in office for two weeks, claims that they are the flag countries –Germany Y Norway– those who must take responsibility for the salvage of these ships.
This 2022, a total of 82,384 migrants compared to 53,189 in the same period of the previous year, according to the latest data shared by the Ministry of the Interior of the transalpine country.
