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In good health, the 60 migrants aboard the boat of this Spanish NGO were transferred to shelters.
The boat of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, with 60 migrants rescued off Libya, arrived on Wednesday in Spain, in the port of Barcelona, after having been refused by Italy. [19659003TwoandahalfweeksafterAquarius Entered a little before 11 am in the port of the Catalan capital, the Open Arms landed in Spain two and a half weeks after the arrival of the Aquarius and its 630 migrants, landed in Valencia on June 17 after having been a week at the center of tensions in Europe on migration policy
"They are happy". After crossing the Mediterranean for four days, the 60 migrants – 50 adult men, 5 women and 5 minors, including 3 unaccompanied – of 14 different nationalities were examined on board by three Red Cross teams. Descended from the ship to be identified by the authorities, they were then transferred to shelters.
"The (health) state of all was good enough," said a spokesman for the Cross. Red. "They are happy because it was explained to them that the government wanted them to come here," said Anabel Montes, Proactiva Open Arms chief of mission.
Refused by Italy. After welcoming the Aquarius mid-June, the new Spanish Socialist government of Pedro Sanchez has agreed to open the port of Barcelona to the migrants of the Open Arms, also refused by Italy and its Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini (League, far right). "We have not saved 60 people, we have let others die" and others will die in the next few days Since we left (from the area off Libya), has no more boat (NGO) in the area, "said the founder of Proactiva Open Arms, Oscar Camps.
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