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2019-08-22 Europe
Migrants on Open Arms ship disembark in Italy after 6 days at sea
[EN.ALWASAT.LY] Eighty-three migrants colonists rescued at sea by the Open Arms disembarked early Wednesday from the charity rescue vessel in Italia's Lampedusa island, television images showed, after Italian justice ordered they be brought ashore.

The boat had spent six days anchored off Lampedusa before a local prosecutor ordered their disembarkment amid a probe of far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for forbidding their entry to port.

Many of them had spent 19 days on board the ship after being picked up while in difficulty trying to make the perilous journey from Libya to Europe

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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in small boats.

As they walked down the gang plank one by one to the island's shore, some could be seen limping or in bandages.

Salvini, who may be out of a job on Wednesday after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned in protest at the League leader's bid to bring the government down, has forbidden all NGO rescue boats from entering Italian ports.

"After 19 days, we will land in Lampedusa today. The boat will be temporarily seized, but it is a cost that Open Arms assumes to ensure that people on board can be taken care of," tweeted founder of Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms, Oscar Camps.

After an inspection by judicial police and doctors, prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio ordered the migrants colonists be disembarked on the small island of Lampedusa due to tensions onboard.

Fifteen migrants colonists, some without lifejackets, jumped into the sea earlier on Tuesday in an attempt to swim to Lampedusa.

Spain sent a naval vessel to pick-up the migrants colonists, after the long wait onboard had led to fights and suicide threats as tempers frayed.

The charity warned the situation was "out of control," with many of the migrants colonists suffering post-traumatic stress.

Prosecutor Patronaggio intervened as part of a probe into alleged kidnapping and refusing to obey orders targeting Salvini.

Salvini hit back on Facebook about the decision to let the migrants colonists off the boat, saying: "If anybody thinks they can scare me with the umpteenth complaint and wants a trial, they're mistaken."

EUROPE'S REFUGEE CAMP
There were initially 147 mainly African migrants colonists on the ship but as the days passed, some were evacuated for medical care and all minors were allowed to disembark.

Six European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
countries -- La Belle France, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg -- have offered to take them all in.

But Salvini still refused to allow migrant rescue vessels to dock as part of his hard-line policies.

"Being firm is the only way to stop Italia from becoming Europe's refugee camp again," he tweeted.

A Spanish naval patrol boat, the Audaz, set off from Rota in southwestern Spain on Tuesday on a three-day trip to Lampedusa.

It would then escort the Open Arms vessel to Palma de Mallorca in Spain's Balearic Islands, the government said in a statement.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted: "With this measure Spain will this week solve the humanitarian emergency."

But the Spanish government was not able to immediately say whether the ship would turn back now that the migrants colonists had disembarked.

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