Migrants, 12 government vehicles and 1.4 million in Libya. NGOs: "People are dying, we are stuck"

SeaWatch reported this morning that he had discovered that He could not leave the port of Valletta because he was "detained" Malta "for no legal reason provided by the authorities". "While they are preventing us from leaving the harbor, people are drowning: any new death at sea – the crew reports in a tweet – is the responsibility of those who prevent the rescue, save lives n & # 39; Is not negotiable ". For the crew of the NGO, the arrest of the ship is "a political campaign to stop the rescue of people at sea."

Holding NGOs far from Libya, closing their ports, even for diesel and cooking, means leaving all the responsibility for rescues to the Libyan Coast Guard: from Zwara to Gasr Garabulli, where inflatable boats are concentrated by the traffickers, the patrol of seven Libyan patrol boats donated by Italy is largely insufficient to guarantee the salvation of the migrants, pushed to challenge the sea at night just to not be intercepted.

After the request of the Libyan navy, which asked for help to Italy for a rapid supply of new ships, and despite the perplexities of the coastguard, a draft arrived this morning by a decree-law with which Italy will donate to the patrols of the Libyan Coast Guard 10 and two naval units of the Guardia di Finanza. The project is being reviewed by the Pre-Council of Ministers, which is expected to allocate a little less than a million and 400 thousand euros in two years for the maintenance of vehicles and the training of naval and military personnel. Libyan Coast Guard.

However, at sea, there is little Libyan media and more and more migrants are fleeing, and therefore in danger. A call to stop the tussle initiated by the Italian government "change" also comes from the Catalan NGO Proactiva: from the edge of the Open Arms, sailing to Barcelona with the migrants rescued Saturday, the cry of commander's pain is entrusted to a video: "Again, another sinking, more than 170 people drowned in 48 hours in the Mediterranean, we ask that the responsibility be verified, what happens is illegal and kills innocent lives , they are not white or European, they are They will pay for it. "Shame"