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Mediterranea heading for Sea Watch 3 off Malta

Mediterranea heading for Sea Watch 3 off Malta

We'll take woman and kids says Di Maio

Rome, 04 January 2019, 18:21

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Italian migrant rescue ship Mediterranea set off from Malta Friday to bring relief to Sea Watch 3 which has been roaming the Mediterranean for 14 days with 32 migrants aboard.
    Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said Italy would take the women and children off the boats.
    Meanwhile Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris reiterated that the port of Naples was open to migrants despite a ban imposed by Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini.
    He said he was determined to save the lives of "children who are dying at sea".
    Salvini said "I'm full of messages from Neapolitans who want de Magistris to deal with the problems of Naples, the rubbish in Naples, the traffic in Naples, jobs in Naples, public housing in Naples; if he wants to be a yachtsman and open the port let him do so, but the interior minister has competence over the port, as he does over all Italian ports".
    Salvini was backed by his ruling partner Luigi Di maio who said Italian mayors can't open ports to migrants.
    "There are mayors thinking of whether they should open or close ports," said Di Maio, who is the other deputy premier as well as industry and labour minister. "I'd like to remind them that they have no authority by law and this shows that all these statements are part of a great opportunity to wage a little election campaign and ask citizens for some votes".
    Leftwing anti-mafia and pro-migrant writer Roberto Saviano on Friday posted a video and a Twitter post calling Salvini a "clown" and urging him to open Italian ports to two migrant rescue ships carrying a total of 49 migrants.
    "I address Minister Salvini," Saviano said.
    "Let him stop playing the clown at the expense of people's lives. Let him open the ports. Enough of this base propaganda, enough waging an election campaign at the expense of others' lives! #seawatch #seaeye." Italian transport ministry sources said the Sea-Watch3 and the Professor Albrecht Penck, belonging to NGOs Sea Watch and Sea Eye) respectively, were a few hundred metres from the Maltese coast in Maltese waters.
    The ministry sources said they were receiving food and all other assistance from Valletta. The European Commission is continuing its "intense" contacts with member States disposed to finding a solution for two migrant rescue ships carrying a total of 49 migrants for almost two weeks, EC spokeswomen Mina Andreeva told reporters on Friday.
    The Sea Watch has 32 migrants while the Sea Eye has a further 17, making 49 in all.
    Andreeva said the EC was trying to find countries willing to "find a solution on the rapid disembarkation of the people on board the Sea Watch 3 and the Sea Eye".
    On Thursday, she said, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos urged member States to "help this joint effort to safely disembark those on board as soon as possible.
    "A series of member States has voiced willingness towards this joint effort and to support Malta", she said.
    The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner on Friday called for an immediate berth for the 49 migrants aboard the Sea Watch 3 and the Sea Eye.
    "States must no further delay offering a safe port to the children, women and men aboard the SeaWatch3 and the SeaEye," said Dunja Mijatovic.
    "Their safety and health must not be further put at risk leaving them adrift at sea," Mijatovic added. "Humanity and compassion must prevail," the commissioner said.
    Migrant arrivals in Italy across the central Mediterranean fell 80% in 2018, European border agency Frontex said Friday.
    They fell to around 23,000, it said.
    Arrivals at the EU's external borders fell to a five year low of 150,000, with arrivals in Spain doubling for the second straight year.
   

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