After a weeks-long standoff, Italian police have arrested the captain of a ship carrying dozens of migrants rescued near Libya
Carola Rackete, the German captain of Sea-Watch 3, was led off the ship in handcuffs after forcing the vessel into the Italian port without permission in the early hours of Saturday morning.The ship had been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for more than two weeks, and had defied an order from Rome blocking it from coming ashore given the desperate situation of the 40 migrants aboard.
"We are proud of our captain, she did exactly the right thing. She upheld the law of the sea and brought people to safety." -- #SeaWatch chairman Johannes Bayer pic.twitter.com/lfZ16Pq9F1 — Sea-Watch International June 29, 2019 She offered no resistance as authorities took her into custody. It brought to an end a lengthy dispute between Salvini and Rackete, who knew she faced arrest when she docked but had remained determined to take the rescued migrants to safety. Salvini had said that the responsibility over the German-owned ship, which flies under the Dutch flag, lay with the Netherlands.
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