Proactiva Open Arms denounced Italy and Libya

three days of sailing, the two ships of the NGO entered yesterday morning in the port of Mallorca and immediately after the crew, led by Oscar Camps, went to the police station to denounce the merchant captain allegedly rammed the boat on which they were traveling a group of migrants, and the Libyan Coast Guard for negligent and negligent homicide.

The sinking is that of Tuesday: a boat with about 150 people aboard, in front of Libyan coast, a shipwreck of which Open Arms badigns responsibility to the merchant with the Panamanian flag Triads, who would have bandaged before the arrival of the rescue.

The Viminale responds: "Italian ports were open"

"NGOs who insinuate, flee, threaten complaints but do not openly disclose lenders and activities," replied the Viminale. "The denunciation of Josefa? Someone exploits a victim for political purposes." We will denounce who, with lies and falsehoods, calls into question the immense work of rescue and hospitality led by Italy. "

the Spanish NGO refused to go to Italy:" If he preferred to refuse landing in Italy to flee elsewhere, that's his problem. "Sicilian ports were also open to accommodate the corpses on board, and for that to the NGO. the option of Lampedusa was excluded: the island lacks indeed cold storage for the bodies ".

Camps, the founder of Proactiva Open Arms, went to court shortly after docking at the port of Palma to testify before the judge, Manuel Penalva, and the prosecutor, Ladislao Roig: "We hope that an investigation is opened and that the case arrives at the national court, we must know exactly what happened," said the activist during the meeting. an audience at the center The Flbadaders of Palma

Josefa, the Cameroonian rescued by Open Arms last Thursday was collected on the high seas, while she drifted hanging on the remains of her small boat; with her, in the middle of the sea, on the wooden table, there was the lifeless body of a child, between 3 and 5 years old, and a woman who also died, between 20 and 30.

Accused Campsthe merchant captain of "absolute negligence" and "the armed group supposed to call Libyan coastguard" for leaving the three people adrift; but he also accuses Italy and the whole of the European Union of letting Libya, "a country without a state", take responsibility for rescue activities with limited means and despite the suspicion of connivance with the traffickers.

And he denounced the refusal of Italy and Malta to land corpses and the survivor in their ports, denouncing the misinformation campaign conducted on his behalf against his organization by the Italian authorities: "They accuse us to be a criminal group, to be traffickers "because we denounce the abandonment of migrants in the middle of the Mediterranean. "We are the only witnesses," he added, explaining that no other NGO is currently active in the area, where the Open Arms will be traveling again once the mission 47 will be completed in Palma

The rescued woman will testify

Now, Josefa was hospitalized," in a state of shock ", and will witness what happened, Camps continued.The two bodies were transferred to the Institute of Forensic Legal Medicine.The complaint of the crew will extend, according to the unfolding of the investigation, also to the Italian and Maltese Coast Guard, because, according to Camps, they might have committed a crime of omission from the duty of badistance.

Marc Gasol, the player of the Nba who p Josep and the two corpses, as a volunteer, were in the company of the founder of the NG: "How to abandon a living woman and a child? we arrived, she had just died … Someone must answer me how human beings can do something like this. "Among the team members, there was also Erasmo Palazzotto, MP from Leu and volunteer, who wanted to thank the Spanish government for the "proof of civilization."

Lapidary the comment of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Danilo Toninelli, entrusted to Twitter

I'm sorry, but Open Arms is Italy is an example in the Mediterranean for humanitarian aid and efficiency.The figures speak.We had given the availability to cure #Josepha and opened the port of Catania, instrumental polemics do not interest us, we work to avoid deaths at sea.

– Danilo Toninelli (@DaniloToninelli) July 21, 2018

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