Alert that it is "unsustainable" the situation on board the ship with migrants who is forbidden from berthing

The situation aboard the ship Open Arms is untenable and its occupants are likely to experience a tragedy, warned today the humanitarian workers who were aboard the ship for more than a hundred migrants for 17 days, in the US. waiting for Italy to allow them to disembark.

"The situation is uncontrollable, escape to our ability," said Oscar Camps, founder of Open Arms, in a video recorded from a boat in front of the NGO rescue boat. Spanish.

"To this day, we can not feel responsible or guarantee the safety of the 134 people or the 19 crew volunteers, who are kidnapped with open arms, because it is impossible to remain calm at all times. a collective action goes off and we can not stop it, "he warned, quoted by the EFE news agency.

The desperate demand for Camps has sparked the reaction of Italian justice which, since yesterday, investigates an alleged crime of kidnapping and who today ordered an inspection of the ship in order to check the conditions of the accident. hygiene and hygiene in which pbadengers are after two weeks of overcrowding. blanket.

The prosecutor's office of the Sicilian city of Agrigento ordered a group of doctors to board the ship to check the health of these people, especially children.

After refusing the landing on Italian shores, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced that he would only allow the landing of minors and that he would do so despite himself, according to a letter issued by the newspaper La Repubblica.

"I do it against my will" and only "because the Prime Minister has asked me to do it," wrote Giuseppe Conte, said Mr. Salvini, about "about thirty migrants" who will be allowed to go ashore.

Salvini's license will however provide no relief to rescuers who, in their latest statements, warned that the landing of "dropper" was contributing to worsening weather conditions on board the ship, as they generated a frustration.

"Small-group evacuations have increased the anger and frustration of the people still on board, who are constantly asking to be evacuated," said an NGO psychologist, Alessandro di Benedetto, to the Spanish daily El País.

Di Benedetto added that the situation was getting worse and worse as the days went by.

He added that, in recent hours, "aggressive behavior" had been observed among some pbadengers imprisoned in despair, that "there had been a suicide attempt" and that a "group of pbadengers had tried to dive into the sea ".

The Open Arms is located near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Two weeks ago, he rescued 147 people in the Mediterranean, near Libya, and then won a legal battle to enter Italian territorial waters, despite the prohibition of Salvini, who adheres to a resolution banning the armed robbery. Italian ports

On Thursday, Spain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania agreed to receive migrants once they landed. However, Salvini's ban keeps most of the pbadengers above the ship.

On the same day, an Italian coastguard boat brought nine migrants to the coast, some of whom were expelled for psychological reasons. On Friday, four other people were transferred for health reasons.

On board Open Arms, people of different nationalities, including Syrians, Maghrebians and Sudanese, escape violence or political persecution in their country.