Italy’s new populist government is criticizing aid groups that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, declaring two German rescue boats can’t dock in Italian ports even though the groups operate at sea and don’t bring migrants ashore.
Mission Lifeline said Saturday that it was asked by the Italian coast guard coordination center to help rescue around 118 migrants on Friday. Lifeline’s crew helped transfer the migrants onto a Singapore-flagged merchant ship, the Viking Amber, and remained at sea as it usually does for any subsequent rescues, according to Lifeline co-founder Axel Steier.
Italy’s new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, nevertheless lashed out at the aid groups he accuses of operating as taxi services for human traffickers. In a Facebook post Saturday, Salvini said Lifeline and the Seefuchs ship of the German group Sea-Eye couldn’t dock in Italy.
Source: Associated Press
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