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Italy forced to pay Sea Watch despite illegal docking with migrants in Lampedusa

The Italian state must pay over €76,000 to the German NGO Sea Watch after the detention of its vessel Sea Watch 3 in 2019 was ruled unlawful.

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Italian Prime Minister Meloni has criticised the court ruling that the Italian state should compensate the German sea rescue organization "Sea Watch". Meloni explained that the decision makes her speechless.

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Rome, 19 Feb © If you thought that seeing the ports of Italy open to those who deliberately entered as a clandestine in a sovereign state had represented the lowest point of legality, justice, logic, ethics and dignity of the nation, you are mistaken. The same judges of the Court of Palermo who were able to institute a judicial process at the time Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini condemned Italy to compensate the NGO Sea Watch with sevent…

Because the state had confiscated a ship from the aid organization Sea-Watch, a court granted the organization 76 000 euros. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is outraged.

·Munich, Germany
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The court of Palermo gives reason to Sea Watch that it has contested the months of stop after Carola forced the Italian block. Meloni furious: "The magistrates reward who boasts not to comply with the law?"More than 76.000 euro of compensation for the detention ordered against the ship Ong that in June 2019 forced a ban of the yellow-green government and entered into port in Lampedusa with 43 migrants on board, spurning a ship from war of the Gu…

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Italy has to pay Sea-Watch 76,000 euros – a success. But while courts regularly collect measures against rescue ships, the government has long since perfected the repression. Now there is a new escalation.

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Italy must pay compensation to the German aid organization Sea-Watch – whose rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 had been confiscated in the port of Lampedusa for months in 2019. It was an "unjustified determination", a court in Palermo stated. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni showed herself "speakless". "Today, the judges have made another decision, which literally makes me speechless: they have ordered that the Italian state must pay the NGO 76,000 euros – a…

·Vienna, Austria
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