ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION – Migrant Rescue Ship ELEONORE

On Saturday 24th August, 2019 the 1961 built former fishing vessel ELEONORE started her first rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea. Two days later on Monday 26th August rescued 104 distressed migrants off the Libyan coast from a sinking rubber boat. Most of them were transferred on board by the ship’s RHIB, some had to be […]
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION – Rome Lets NGO Rescue Ship Into Italian Port – 14.09.2019

Italy’s new government allowed a French charity ship to bring ashore 82 migrants last Saturday 14th September in an apparent reversal of the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration. However, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who heads the 5-Star Movement in the governing coalition, said the OCEAN VIKING was only being given access to […]