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

WHY MERKEL MUST GO. The U.S. establishment put Merkel on the political death list. Even leftist, liberal American media. The NEW YORK TIMES, 5.7.2018: “Admirers still speak of Merkel as if she is Europe’s last lion, the only leader with the vision and capacity to save the E.U. There is much that is admirable about the chancellor, but as things now stand she is likelier to be remembered as the E.U.’s unwitting destroyer. The longer she’s in office, the more the forces of reaction will gain strength. And isn’t 13 years in office more than enough? [...] What’s the alternative? A passage from Norman Davies’s magisterial history of Europe suggests the darker possibilities:
‘Inter-war politics were dominated by the recurrent spectacle of democracies falling prey to dictatorship.’ He continued: ‘It cannot be attributed to any simple cause, save the inability of Western Powers to defend the regimes which they had inspired. The dictators came in all shapes and sizes - communists, fascists, radicals and reactionaries, left-wing authoritarians (like Pilsudski), right-wing militarists (like Franco), monarchs, anti-monarchists, even a cleric like Father Tiso in Slovakia. The only thing they shared was the conviction that Western democracy was not for them.’
The stakes are too high for a muddler like Merkel to stick around.”
#merkelmustgo #merkelmussweg #merkelregime #merkelmigration #umvolkung #resettlement #grosseraustausch #merkelterror #replacementmigration #regimechange #resist #widerstand
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/opinion/angela-merkel-germany-immigration-european-union.html