Captain of stranded migrant rescue ship barred from Italy says ‘the law is definitely on my side’
Sea Watch 3 skipper Carola Rackete could face a €50,000 fine for disembarking the 40 migrants she has on board on Lampedusa
The Sea Watch 3
THE captain of an NGO rescue ship, currently at sea and preparing to disembark 40 migrants onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, said “the law is definitely on my side” today.
The Sea Watch 3 — operated by the German charity Sea Watch — rescued 53 migrants off the coast of Libya on June 12.
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