For the second one time in lower than two months, the humanitarian send Ocean Viking has arrived in Italy’s Ravenna port, with refugees on board.
The Italian government gave the SOS Mediterranee vessel permission to dock after it spent 4 days at sea.
“Ravenna is a supportive community. We immediately made our city available to welcome [the] arrivals” stated Ravenna mayor Michele De Pascale.
At the Ravenna cruise terminal, the President of the Emilia-Romagna area Stefano Bonaccini additionally expresses his worry about Europe’s place at the reception and distribution of migrants.
“We need a system for the distribution of migrants in Europe because we are not at the emergency stage but we could soon be,” stated Bonaccini.
“I believe that we must demand that Europe show solidarity and that it makes itself available.”
Bonaccini stated he idea the Italian govt had “little credibility” as a result of for years it had despatched the message that the rustic’s ports had been closed, excluding to Italians. However now when they’re calling for reinforce from different EU international locations, the plea was once falling on deaf ears.
Concerns have additionally been expressed a few new Italian govt decree that calls for NGO vessels to straight away go back to an assigned port after one rescue operation has been finished, however Alessandro Porro says this boundaries the selection of migrants who will also be pulled from the water.
“This decree slows down the operational capacity of a maritime ambulance like Ocean Viking to be operational and to be present where there is a need. The people we have rescued are now in good health, we have seen situations of dehydration, hypothermia and suffering due to torture and violence in Libyan prisons ” stated Porro.
A complete of 84 other folks had been rescued in global waters off the coast of Libya on February 14 together with 59 unaccompanied minors.
