![]() The EU directive on "crimes of solidarity" needs reform.- Carola Rackete January 17, 2020 No one should be prosecuted for aiding people in need. ![]() This is an important verdict for all sea rescue activists! □□The Italian Supreme Court confirmed today that I shouldn't have been arrested in June for saving lives. This is a very important verdict for all those working in the humanitarian sector' involved in rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea." "No one should be prosecuted for having helped people in difficulty. "The court confirmed that I should not have been arrested for having saved lives," Rackete said. Although several passengers were allowed to disembark for medical care, Italy's then interior minister Matteo Salvini refused to allow the remaining 40 onto Italian territory until other EU countries pledged to take them in. In mid June, the crew of German charity vessel Sea-Watch 3 crew had rescued dozens of migrants off Libya and subsequently waited to dock at a port for more than two weeks. It thereby rejected an appeal by the Agrigento prosecutor's office against an order the preliminary investigative judge had issued on July 2 to release Rackete. That's the ruling of the Italian Court of Cassation announced on Friday. Carola Rackete, the embattled former German captain of NGO vessel Sea-Watch 3, should not have been arrested as she was only doing her duty in bringing migrants to Italian shores.
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