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Carola Rackete is ready to escalate the confrontation with the Italian government. If there was no agreement on the migrants on board and the ship could not create so, she was ready to go to the port of Lampedusa without permission, said the captain of the "Sea-Watch 3" of the German Press Agency and the ARD.
The situation on the ship is currently very tense. She could no longer guarantee the safety of the people on board. Some threatened to jump overboard. On Wednesday, Rackete had overruled a decree from Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and had gone unauthorized into Italian territorial waters.
Before Lampedusa, the ship had been waiting for a harbor permit with 42 migrants for days. The crew had taken people to Libya on June 12th. Italy does not want to let migrants from civilian ships ashore if other EU states do not agree to accept the refugees.
Salvini under the belt
The Italian Interior Minister Salvini, who always refers to his Christian roots in the election campaign, rages against the Sea Watch. He accuses Sea-Watch of piracy and criminal machinations. In the two weeks since the rescue, the ship could have reached the Netherlands twice.
The captain felt guilty because she was "white, rich and born German," he tweeted. "They have rejected nearby safe havens," he said, referring to Malta, Greece and Tunisia. He wanted the refugees to be brought to the Netherlands and Germany. The ship is registered in Amsterdam, Sea Watch is in Berlin – and the captain comes to court, Salvini said on Italian television.
Biting on granite: Matteo Salvini
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer accuses the EU Commission of doing too little in the struggle for a solution. "With 'Sea-Watch 3', we now have the problem that other EU countries are extremely reluctant, and unfortunately, the EU Commission does not properly and not intensively enough for it," said the CSU politician. EU Interior Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos called on the EU states to show solidarity.
At Sea Watch in Berlin you can see the situation critically. "There is no solution," said spokesman Ruben Neugebauer the Evangelical Press Service.
Churches want to get involved
The President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, again called for the development of civilian rescue services in the Mediterranean. Europe currently has no functioning mechanisms to save people in the Mediterranean, said the Bavarian Bishop in the RBB Inforadio. That's why the civilian rescuers are so important. In the past 18 months alone 3,000 people drowned on the way to Europe in the Mediterranean.
"We can no longer look away, we have to act," said the EKD Council Chairman. He expressly supported the proposal to send a further lifeboat with the participation of the EKD to the Mediterranean. The ship was to be supported by a broad civic alliance, with the participation of the churches as a major player, said Bedford-Strohm.
"Tragedy"
Bernd Riexinger, federal chairman of the Left Party, spoke of a tragedy. Formally, it could be legally correct that the Italian government refused to land, he said. "Humanly, it's a declaration of bankruptcy," he added, "We call on the EU and the federal government to increase political pressure to end the humanitarian and political misery in Italy."
cgn / rb (dpa, epd)
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