Rescue Ship Captain is Authorized to Leave for Germany | TIME ONLINE



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The captain of the lifeboat Lifeline which is on Malta may, according to the humanitarian organization Mission Lifeline Germany
go. The German Claus-Peter Reisch had one in court
Request for travel submitted, according to media reports, his elderly mother for a few days
To visit Germany. The request has now been granted. July 16th
Reisch can therefore leave the Mediterranean island of Malta.

The court of the
Maltese capital Valletta decided against the exit ban
To lift Claus-Peter Reisch, said Axel Steier, co-founder of the Dresden Aid Organization
Life line of the mission. To continue the trials on July 30, he must
but come back to Malta. Neil Falzon, Reisch's lawyer, said the captain will return to Malta shortly before the hearing

The Lifeline Dresdeners.
The humanitarian organization was crossed at sea for nearly a week without a target after sinking more than 230 people
Had saved the migrants from Libya. In June, Italy's Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, banned private rescue aid from mooring Italian ports. The German rescue ship "Lifeline" with 234 rescuers saved on board was therefore on a wandering day in the Mediterranean. Only after the agreement that the refugees
divided into EU countries, Malta has authorized entry into a port at the end of June. There, he was confiscated and the captain was brought to justice.

Reisch is accused of being the ship without being duly registered
Maltese waters controlled. He is free in Malta,
but the island was not allowed to leave.

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