The “Rise Above” accosted in Sicily on the night of Monday to Tuesday. Two other humanitarian ships had already been allowed to dock in Italy, without having been able to disembark all their survivors.
Le Monde with AFP
End of an “odyssey”, according to the NGO Lifeline. The German organization announced on Twitter that the Rise Above, a humanitarian ship that it charters to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, accosted in Sicily (southern Italy) on the night of Monday to Tuesday, November 8, after the ‘downstream given by de Rome. The boat accosted Reggio de Calabria, with its 89 survivors and nine crew members. “Hopefully (…) that everyone on board can disembark,” writes the NGO.
Four migrants had been evacuated on Sunday, for medical reasons, from this ship, a small size compared to the other three boats of NGOs operating in the Mediterranean, which come up against the new Italian government to disembark all of their Passengers.
“Important signs of anxiety”
After weeks spent at sea, the ship beating Germany Humanity 1, from the NGO SOS Humanity, was authorized to dock on Sunday in Catania to land 144 people, mainly women and minors. On board remain 35 migrants, adult men, whose Italy does not want.
The Geo Barents, ship of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) beating Norwegian pavilion, also accosted Sunday evening in Catania, and the Italian authorities authorized 357 people to disembark, including children, while refusing the Entrance to 215 others.
Only the Ocean Viking, of the European NGO SOS Méditerranée, which also beats Norwegian pavilion, has not been granted for the moment entry into an Italian port, it sailed Tuesday morning off Syracuse , said to the agency France-Presse a photographer present on board.
“The situation on the Ocean Viking has become unbearable for 234 survivors. After seventeen days on board, their mental health is seriously affected: many suffer from insomnia and show important signs of anxiety and Depression “, the NGO was alarmed on Monday.
The new Italian government, the most right since the Second World War, has signed up to a hard treatment of migrants. The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Pierdosi, estimated that the migrants rescued at sea were the responsibility of the State under the flag of which the boats navigate.