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As we wanted to demonstrate: after the dives from the ship in the last hours, the green light given by the Italian authorities to the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms is now official. 140 migrants remained on board the ship, while the others recovered in the Mediterranean earlier this week had been thrown into the sea near the port of Palermo.
It had happened yesterday with 76 migrants who jumped into the water from the boat that was flying the Spanish flag, it happened again this morning with another 48 people thrown into the sea a few steps from the port of the Sicilian capital. Once off the boat with life jackets, the migrants were rescued by coastguard Italian who rescued them by transferring them to the ferry Allegra, aboard which they will pass the quarantine.
The result was that 148 immigrants entered Italy even before Open Arms. Meanwhile, the Spanish crew, highlighting everyone on board, had the opportunity to pressure the media and politicians to allow the ship to enter Palermo. What happened could be the first in a series of cases of this type, where, due to the actions of migrants who jumped into the sea, it is possible to disembark people more quickly in our country.
It all started ten days ago, when Open Arms rescued at least 276 migrants in the central Mediterranean. It was the first mission of the Spanish NGO after several months, just over a year after the one that later led to the investigation in August 2019 for which former minister Matteo Salvini will go to trial.
Once he headed towards malt, the Spanish ship was banned from entering its territorial waters from Valletta. A behavior that the Maltese followed for several hours despite bad weather and storms that hit the area. The Open Arms thus made its way to Sicily and ten immigrants dived not far from Porto Empedocle.
This was the first symptom of the tension on board reported by Open Arms on social media, which convinced our authorities to give the ship the green light to approach Palermo while it remained in port. The above happened here: on two occasions 148 migrants submerged and were rescued by the Coast Guard.
At this point, the pressures for the final landing were increasingly marked, with the objective of the Spanish NGO achieved in the last hours thanks to the green light at the entrance of the ship to Palermo. This latest news was announced by the members of Open Arms themselves in Twitter: “10 days after rescuing 276 people in international waters – it reads – and after reaching an extreme situation on board, Italy authorizes the disembarkation of the 140 castaways, who will go into quarantine on the ship Allegra ”.
The unknown in the future is that what happened could be repeated in other contexts and on other similar occasions: from now on, NGOs know that having migrants thrown into the sea accelerates the entry into Italy of people rescued from the Mediterranean.
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