LIFELINE CAPTAIN HOLDS ONLY COASTAL LICENSE. Malta Today, 2.7.2018: “Claus-Peter Reisch, the captain of the migrant rescue vessel Lifeline, was charged in a Maltese court over the ship's lack of proper registration. He is granted bail as the ship remains impounded by the authorities. The captain of the Lifeline, a migrant rescue vessel that berthed in Malta last Wednesday, has a sea licence that qualifies him to sail boats in coastal waters, at a range of 30 nautical miles, the court heard [...] Taking the witness stand in front of Magistrate Joe Mifsud, police Inspector Mario Haber said Reisch's sea licence was limited to coastal waters. The Lifeline carried out rescue operations on the high seas, way outside the coastal waters of Italy and Malta.
In court, Haber said the ship was registered with a Dutch yacht club. The Dutch authorities had confirmed the Netherlands was not the flag state, as claimed by the captain [...] The court said it would carry out a site inspection of the vessel and appointed experts to survey the ship and its computers [...] The captain has been granted bail against a personal guarantee of €10,000 [...] The ship captain was accused by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of precipitating the Lifeline crisis when he ignored orders from the Rome rescue coordination centre during last week's rescue [...] The court appoints Pierre Zammit Endrich and Martin Bajada to inspect the contents of the vessel and its computers [...] The defence: ‘We aren't ISIS here.’ The prosecution: ‘We haven't excluded this… we cannot exclude adding charges in future.’”
#lifeline #valletta #malta #defendeurope #clauspeterreisch #frontex #merkelregime #grosseraustausch #noway #humantrafficing #portichiusi #asylumindustry #asylindustrie #ngo #coastguard #hilfsorganisation #resettlement #widerstand
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_and_police/87932/live_lifeline_captain_taken_to_court_in_malta

BACK TO AFRICA, WITH LOVE. Socialists kill, populists save lifes. Italy’s coast guard started to return saved migrants to Libyan ports. Breitbart, 23.7.2018: “‘If governments do their job, the dirty business of illegal immigration can be stopped,’ Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced Sunday. In an enthusiastic tweet, Salvini, the 45-year-old leader of the League party, said that the Italian Coast Guard had successfully saved the lives of 40 African migrants over the weekend by rescuing them at sea and taking them back to Libya. ‘Willing is being able, I am all in,’ Salvini concluded. Salvini also posted a video on his Facebook page Monday in which he expresses his hope that recent attempts to shuttle migrants across the Strait of Sicily represent the ‘last gasps’ of human traffickers and that this will be ‘the last summer of tragedies in the Mediterranean.’
Curiously, Mr. Salvini’s parting wish coincides exactly with a special appeal made by Pope Francis on Sunday, in which he, too, expressed his wish that the tragic migrant deaths in the Mediterranean would soon come to an end [...] Although Salvini and the pope do not see eye to eye on the immigration question, with Salvini pushing for an end to illegal immigration and Francis pressing for a more “welcoming” attitude toward economic migrants, they seem to have connected in a will to bring an end to migrant deaths. The question remains how best this can be accomplished, but for the moment it would seem that Salvini has the upper hand.
As Breitbart News has reported, recent immigration data released by both the UNHCR and IOM show a remarkable correlation between curbing immigration and curbing migrant deaths [...] In this light, Salvini’s tightened immigration policies would seem to be a much more effective remedy to migrant sea deaths than fanciful calls for open borders and open ports.”
#salvini #portichiusi #populism #populismus #marinamilitare #coastguard #frontex #noway #defendeurope #migration #immigration #umvolkung #grosseraustausch #greatexchange #replacementmigration #humantrafficing #menschenschmuggel #schleuser #schlepper #gutmenschen #gutis #resist #widerstand
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/23/italys-matteo-salvini-decries-dirty-business-illegal-immigration/