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Refused by Italy and Malta :
Lifeboat with refugees on board is allowed to land in Spain
The "open arms" on the Mediterranean.
Photo: dpa / Olmo Calvo
More than 60 refugees have saved the ship "Open Arms" according to their own declarations of the Mediterranean. Italy and Malta do not consider themselves responsible, since Spain allows entry.
A rescue boat with more than 60 refugees and migrants on board can dock in Barcelona after a conflict of jurisdiction. The Open Arms, a vessel of the Proactiva Open Arms auxiliary group in Barcelona, will be included, the Spanish government announced on Saturday. Italy and Malta had previously refused admission – and violently exchanged blows.
The "Open Arms" said Saturday they rescued 60 people in the Mediterranean near Libya and asked permission to land in Italy. This was rejected by the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and put Malta into play, there is the nearest port.
But Malta resisted immediately. Interior Minister Michael Farrugia argued that the small Italian island of Lampedusa is less far from the ship. The "Open Arms" is now the third rescue ship of a humanitarian group deployed in the Mediterranean, which has faced a negative attitude from Salvini over the past three weeks.
The ship would probably take four days to arrive in Barcelona, said the captain. of the escort ship "Astral". Apart from the rescue operation of the "Open Arms" read the Spanish Seerettungsdienst on Saturday 63 people. 58 migrants were found in the Strait of Gibraltar in three boats that were launched in North Africa, according to the statement. Five more were resettled further east near the Murcia region
Other migrants and refugees arrived this year via the Western Mediterranean by sea and land to Europe rather than by North Africa to Italy. Spain's new socialist government under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called on other EU countries to treat rescued migrants with dignity.
"People shouted, I was scared," said a nine-year-old boy from the Central African Republic aboard the "Open Arms". "But when I saw the lifeboat, I knew there was no danger." His mother claimed to have lived in Libya for months. For fear of a possible kidnapping or sale as a slave, she never left her home. "At home is war, they kill people, they beat people, they rape women, they kill boys, we have no peace."
A 39-year-old Cameroonian declared that He had been sold twice as a slave, kidnapped and tortured in Libya before having the opportunity to get into a smugglers' boat. At home, his brother sold the house to pay the ransom to the kidnappers. "To die is better than to be treated like that."
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