Italy to pick up migrants, impound German charity ship

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Reuters
Steve Scherer, Angelo Amante
June 21, 2018

ROME (Reuters) - Italy appeared to relent on Thursday after at first refusing to accept 226 migrants on board a German charity rescue ship, saying later in the day it would take them in but would impound the vessel.

Anti-immigrant interior minister Matteo Salvini initially said the Dutch-flagged ship Lifeline should take the people it plucked from the Mediterranean to the Netherlands and not Italy.

But transport minister Danilo Toninelli, who oversees the coastguard, later said it was unsafe for the 32-metre vessel to travel such a great distance with so many people on board.

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Also on Thursday, the German charity Sea Eye which operates another Dutch-flagged ship, the Seefuchs, said in a statement it was ending its sea rescue mission after the Dutch government told them that it was no longer responsible for the vessel.

More... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-italy/italy-tells-rescue-ship-to-take-migrants-to-the-netherlands-idUSKBN1JH2CS

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Refusing to play the sap. What a concept.

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Related: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,321357.msg1720131/topicseen.html#msg1720131

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Too bad the Italians caved on this one.
They should have stood their ground.
If the ship sank on the voyage to Holland, well, too bad.

If you want to stop more ships from coming, this is what you MUST do.
Otherwise, you get this:

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Seefuchs?

If they let them in it will be Beenfuched

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Too bad the Italians caved on this one.

They impounded the ship. If they keep that up then the crossings will have to stop.