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The humanitarian ship of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms is heading to the island of Lampedusa with 147 migrants on board, after the court suspended a decree of the Italian Minister Matteo Salvini that forbade him to enter in Italian territorial waters. This is a difficult setback for right-handed Salvini in his tough fight against immigrants.

From the NGO, they said that they do not consider mooring by force. For the moment, they intend to take refuge from bad weather. On Wednesday, they released a video showing waves of up to 2.5 meters shaking the ship and its pbadengers. The problem will arise when they arrive in Lampedusa, an island in the south of Italy, because Salvini, who is fighting a fierce battle against illegal immigration, could order their confinement aboard the ship.

Despite everything, Salvini announced an "urgent" appeal against the decision and signed a new decree on the grounds that the behavior of Open Arms demonstrated its "political objective to bring migrants to Italy". "We live in a country where a lawyer from the administrative court (of the region) of Lazio wants to authorize the landing in Italy of a foreign ship filled with migrants.I will sign in the next hours my" no "", a- he declared. Salvini, in act in Genoa. He added that a "project to reopen Italian ports and transform Italy into a refugee camp in Europe" is being developed, which he promised not to not consent.

"We won the call we formed before an Italian administrative tribunal," said Oscar Camps, founder of Proactiva Open Arms, shortly before at a press conference in Madrid. "The only thing missing is that we have been allocated a port," he said. After three rescue operations in the last 12 days and a series of medical evacuations, Open Arms has 147 migrants on board, including some thirty miners.

A few days ago, Malta agreed to receive only part of the crew
, saved in their area of ​​expertise. The NGO refused the transfer for fear of the reaction of those who would stay on board. In an interview Wednesday morning with Spanish radio Chain to beThe camps have highlighted the risk of fighting between migrants, tired and stressed. According to him, the 19 crew members have more and more difficulties managing the tensions caused by overcrowding, uncertainty and the state of "very high post-traumatic stress" of migrants. "Imagine that there are two bathrooms covering 180 square meters." There are discussions for shading, discussions for a sun, discussions for food, discussions for the row to go to bathroom, "he explained. France said it was "in touch with the European Commission" to find a solution for the 500 or so migrants on both ships.

Just before the first Open Arms rescue operation in early August, the far right Salvini party signed a decree
prohibit the humanitarian ship from entering Italian territorial waters. According to the minister, it is a question of public order. In the event of an offense, the NGO could be fined up to one million euros and confiscated the ship. But Wednesday's court decision suspended the measure.

"It's a success: you can not go against international maritime law," Camps praised. According to the Italian press, the court found an excess of power and a violation of international law on rescue at sea. The Regional Administrative Court (TAR) of Lazio, which took this decision and explained that the situation of gravity and Exceptional urgency justified its authorization to enter the Italian territorial waters so that rescued persons who need it receive medical badistance. On Wednesday morning, the Democratic Party asked the head of government, Giuseppe Conte, to land the migrants Open Arms as soon as possible.

"What a strange country!", Responded Salvini at a rally on a beach in Liguria, in northwestern Italy. "The administrative court of Lazio wants to allow the landing in Italy of a foreign ship loaded with foreign migrants," he said.

Already in August 2018, the right-wing leader had detained for more than five days a hundred migrants on the coast of the city of Catania, in Sicily (south), action that earned him the opening of 39, an investigation in Italy. Salvini has not been tried for these facts because his government partner, the anti-system of the Five Star Movement, has prevented the lifting of his immunity. However, a few days ago, he broke the government coalition, called for early elections and went to the post of prime minister.

In parallel, the humanitarian ship "Ocean Viking",
charters by the NGOs Médecins Sans Frontières and SOS Méditerranée, also waiting for
Mediterranean with 356 migrants on board, which some countries allow to enter
In the harbour.