Italian authorities have assigned a safe port to the German humanitarian organization Mission Lifeline to disembark the 27 migrants rescued on Saturday in the Mediterranean by the ship ‘Rise Above’.
The organization, based in Dresden, has confirmed this «surprisingly fast» permission to take the rescued to the town of Gioia Tauro, on the western coast of Calabria, in the extreme south of Italy.
The crew set course for Calabria from their current position, east of Malta. The rescue ship had arrived a few days ago in its area of operations in the central Mediterranean, where aid organizations regularly bring migrants in distress to safety.
On Friday, volunteers assisted in the rescue of more than 60 boat people, who were transferred to the ‘Sea-Eye 4’ of the German Sea-Eye organization. On Saturday, the crew took 27 migrants from Syria aboard the ‘Rise Above’.
The migrants mostly set sail from the coasts of North Africa bound for Italy to reach European Union countries, but repeatedly find themselves in distress at sea.
The Italian government, despite the speed of these concessions, maintains its intention to limit the arrivals, following the political program of the far-right Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
The newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ has reported this Sunday without going any further on a new regulation that Rome wants to introduce after Christmas and that would oblige the crews to bring to land the rescued people immediately after taking them on board.
The note adds that the Italian government will not accept organizations that do not comply with that rule and that if they enter Italian waters later, they will be. According to the newspaper, the authorities thus want to prevent ships from sailing longer and rescuing more migrants in several consecutive missions.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
