Cap Anamur (ship, 1983)
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The Cap Anamur is a general cargo ship that has become known as the rescue ship of the aid organization Cap Anamur / Deutsche Not-Ärzte eV . Both names are directly linked historically and thematically and are derived from Cape Anamur , Turkey's southernmost cape in the Mediterranean.
Use as a rescue ship
From the donations received by Cap Anamur / Deutsche Notärzte we were able to buy our own ship in 2004. The decision was made in favor of a general cargo ship built in 1983 at the Heinrich Brand shipyard in Oldenburg . The ship was named Cap Anamur and entered service on February 14, 2004. The aid organization had chartered a ship of the same name as early as 1979 and adopted the name from it in 1982. The maiden voyage of the Cap Anamur led from Lübeck to West Africa in March 2004 .
The ship hit the headlines again in July 2004. During its first mission in the Mediterranean , 37 refugees were taken on board off the African coast, who first indicated their origin as " Sudan ", whereby it turned out that 31 from Ghana and six from Nigeria came from. Her applications for asylum in Germany were rejected because the ship was not in German waters. After a blockade of almost three weeks, the Italian authorities granted Cap Anamur permission to enter the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle on July 12th . The 37 refugees were taken to a camp. Shortly after landing, the ship was confiscated, the captain Stefan Schmidt , the chief officer and the head of the aid organization Elias Bierdel were arrested for aiding and abetting illegal entry . On October 7, 2009, acquittals were made, which were initially not final. Critics accused the Cap Anamur / Deutsche Notärzte e. V. proposes to misuse the suffering of people to achieve political goals. The former chairman Rupert Neudeck also criticized the actions of the new crew around Elias Bierdel and spoke of a loss of credibility in the aid organization. For their part, the accused criticized the bureaucratic and “inhumane” approach in EU refugee policy. On July 16, 2004, the three crew members were released again, accompanied by sympathy rallies throughout Italy. On July 20, almost all Nigerian refugees (only one was temporarily allowed to stay in Italy) and on July 22, the Ghanaian refugees were deported to their homeland. As a result of this action, the Cap Anamur / Deutsche Notärzte e. V. from its first chairman Elias Bierdel.
On February 18, 2005, the ship was released again and sailed for Croatia .
In March 2005 the committee decided to sell the second Cap Anamur . Since the ship had been confiscated as evidence in Italy for almost eight months, contracts were concluded with transport companies during this time in order to be able to handle the aid projects logistically. Due to the long-term new ties, the additional use and maintenance of one's own ship would have been too expensive. The sale was completed in April 2005.
Whereabouts of the ship
After the sale, the ship was renamed Baltic Betina and used again as a cargo ship.
Others
On December 13, 2009, the ship's captain, Stefan Schmidt , was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in Berlin . Furthermore, in 2006 Schmidt received the human rights award from the Pro Asyl Foundation .
Web links
- Alessandra Sciurba: Lawless Zone. The Cap Anamur case - an anti-racist diary . From: Analysis & Critique No. 489 / November 19, 2004
Individual evidence
- ^ Article in the Tagesschau from October 7, 2009
- ↑ Michael Braun: Ex-Cap-Anamur boss Bierdel - "I'm not happy". taz.de , accessed on October 9, 2009 ( interview ): “The judgment is not final. The court will justify its judgment within 90 days, and the public prosecutor can then appeal. For us that would mean that we will spend the next three years in front of the court in Palermo - the next higher instance. "
- ↑ René Heilig: acquittal - reason to celebrate? Neues Deutschland , October 8, 2009, accessed on October 9, 2009 ( interview ): “And our judgment is not yet final either. The chamber must justify it within 90 days. After that, the public prosecutor has 45 days to consider whether to go into revision. "
- ^ Lübeck captain accused of smuggling , Hamburger Abendblatt, February 14, 2009.