Anti-migrant ship stalks NGO rescue vessel off Libya

[TomSea]

Anti-migrant ship stalks NGO rescue vessel off Libya
'Defend Europe' alliance accuses NGOs of smuggling thousands of illegal migrants to Europe, endangering security of continent

Banner reading 'Stop Human Trafficking' displayed on side of vessel C-Star as it sails in Mediterranean Sea, 20 nautical miles off Libyan coast (AFP)
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Saturday 5 August 2017 19:39 UTC   Last update: Sunday 6 August 2017 9:49 UTC

By Giovanni Grezzi

A ship carrying far-right campaigners who aim to turn migrant boats back to Africa, was following an NGO rescue vessel with an AFP reporter on board in the waters off Libya.

The activists' "Defend Europe" mission was financed by a crowd-funding initiative organised by young anti-immigration campaigners from France, Italy and Germany.

Their 40-metre ship named C-Star, hired by "Generation Identity," arrived on Saturday in an area where tens of thousands of migrants have been rescued from unseaworthy trafficker boats in recent years.

The boat spent 30-45 minutes shadowing the aid ship Aquarius at a distance of a few hundred metres, then continued shadowing it from farther back.

Continued: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/anti-migrant-ship-shadows-ngo-rescue-vessel-libya-572751021

[Fishrrman]

What's needed are several dozen more "C-Stars" patrolling the Mediterranean, with armaments, willing to sink refugee craft.

Do that to a few of them, and the others will start having second thoughts about coming.

If The West is unwilling to take such actions (and it seems like they are), then they're destined to receive this a thousand times over: