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‘We are going to sail’: Activists ready to defy German law designed to stop them
Mare Liberum says it does not intend to provoke the German transport ministry but that they must go back to monitoring Greece's illegal migrant pushbacks in the Aegean
The Mare Liberum refugee-rescue ship [Toni Petraschk]

“WE ARE going to sail,” human rights activists told the Star today despite the German government’s recent law changes aimed at stopping them.

In June the country’s transport ministry blocked German-flagged humanitarian ships from sailing in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas when it changed the wording of a law regulating the safety requirements for yachts and other small vessels.

“The change of law means that we can’t register our boat as a leisure craft and have to meet the same safety requirements as merchant vessels,” Lisa, a German activist from the Mare Liberum, told the Star.

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