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Rescue ship with 42 migrants defies Italy order to stay out

By COLLEEN BARRY the ship, Neugebauer said.
Associated Press The European Commission
MILAN (AP) — A private sea had been in touch with
rescue ship carrying 42 mi- “several member states”
grants it took aboard off Lib- by midday to identify a port
ya two weeks ago entered where the migrants could
Italian waters Wednesday disembark and countries
despite an explicit ban willing to take the passen-
from Italy’s interior minis- gers in after that, spokes-
ter, who has threatened to woman Natasha Bertaud
seize the ship operated by said. She said no decisions
a German aid organization were made.
and to arrest its captain. Sea-Watch said that the
Interior Minister Matteo Sal- migrants had become des-
vini said the captain of the perate after the European
Sea-Watch 3 broke the law Court of Human Rights on
both by disobeying direct Tuesday rejected their ap-
orders not to cross into Ita- peal to be allowed to dis-
ly’s territorial waters and by embark in Italy.
flouting measures that bar Those on board are among
the migrant rescue ships of 53 that the group said it res-
nonprofit groups from en- cued June 12 from a rubber
tering Italian jurisdiction. Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, attends a RAI state TV program in boat off Libya in interna-
“The right to defend our Rome, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. tional waters. In the mean-
borders is sacred,” Salvini Associated Press time, 11 have been evacu-
said. European ports instead of erlands through its em- really hope they will take ated to Italy for medical
Italian media played a re- remaining near Italy. The bassy in The Hague, the the rescues off the ship reasons. The remaining 42
cording of the ship’s cap- crew insisted that Italy’s Italian Foreign Ministry said. soon.” include a 12 year old and
tain informing port authori- Lampedusa island had Meanwhile, Italian Premier In a separate post, she said two other children traveling
ties Wednesday she was the safe port nearest to Giuseppe Conte met with she knew she risked arrest alone. The group’s cultural
heading to Italy “because migrants’ point of rescue Salvini and Foreign Minister “but the 42 rescued are mediator, Haidi Sadik, said
I cannot guarantee the north of Libyan waters. Enzo Moavero Milanesi in exhausted. I need to bring many on board have been
safety of the people on Hours after Sea-Watch 3 Rome to discuss the situa- them to safety.” tortured in Libya. “But even
board anymore.” The re- arrived off the coast of tion. The captain of Sea- Sea-Watch spokesman if this was not the case, any
sponse from the port was Lampedusa on Wednes- Watch 3, Carola Rackete, Ruben Neugebereger person rescued at sea, by
“You are not authorized to day, there was no sign the said in a video posted on said the crew had previ- law has to be brought to a
enter Italian waters.” migrants would be allowed Twitter that Italian authori- ously requested permission place of safety. These are
Salvini has insisted the ship to get off the ship in Italy or ties had boarded the ship to port in Malta and was people with basic needs
belonging to German any other move to end the to check documentation turned down. Sea-Watch and basic rights. A rescue
group Sea-Watch and sail- standoff. and the crew’s passports. also asked the European operation is not finished un-
ing under a Dutch flag Given the boat’s Dutch The authorities “are waiting Union’s executive commis- til every single person res-
should have continued on flag, Italy requested “for- for further instructions from sion to intervene and help cued has both feet on the
to Malta, Tunisia or northern mal steps” from the Neth- their superiors,” she said. “I find a port that will allow ground,” Sadik said.q

European heat wave sees Germany put speed curbs on autobahn

Associated Press older cars from the city for Such temperatures are
BERLIN (AP) — Large parts the day as a heat wave rare in France, where most
of western and central Eu- aggravates the city’s pol- homes and many buildings
rope sweated under blaz- lution. Regional authorities do not have air condition-
ing temperatures Wednes- estimate the measure put ing. French charities and
day, with authorities in one into place Wednesday af- local officials are providing
German region imposing fects nearly 60% of vehicles extra help for the elderly,
temporary speed limits on circulating in the Paris re- the homeless and the sick
some stretches of the au- gion, including many de- this week, remembering
tobahn as a precaution livery trucks and older cars that some 15,000 people,
against heat damage. with higher emissions than many of them elderly, died
Authorities have warned newer models. Violators in France during a 2003
that temperatures could face fines. heat wave.
top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Around France, some Prime Minister Edouard
Fahrenheit) in parts of the schools have been closed Philippe cited the heat
continent over the coming People cool off in a fountain during a hot summer day, in because of the high tem- wave as evidence of cli-
days as a plume of dry, hot Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, June, 25, 2019. peratures, which are ex- mate destabilization and
air moves north from Africa. Associated Press pected to go up to 39 de- vowed to step up the gov-
The transport ministry in until further notice. Those seldorf Airport station as a grees Celsius (102 Fahren- ernment’s fight against cli-
Germany’s eastern Sax- stretches usually have no precaution because two heit) in the Paris area later mate change.
ony-Anhalt state said it speed limit. trains’ air conditioning sys- this week and bake much About half of Spain’s prov-
has imposed speed limits On Tuesday evening, tems weren’t working prop- of the country, from the inces are on alert for high
of 100 kph or 120 kph (62 German railway opera- erly, but neither had to be Pyrenees in the southwest temperatures, which are
mph or 75 mph) on several tor Deutsche Bahn called evacuated. to the German border in expected to rise as the
short stretches of highway rescue services to Dues- In Paris, authorities banned the northeast. weekend approaches. q