Carola Rackete

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Carola Rackete [ ʁaˈkeːtə ] (born May 8, 1988 in Preetz ) is a German captain and political activist. She gained international fame when, as the captain of Sea-Watch 3, she rescued a total of 53 refugees and migrants coming from Libya in the Mediterranean from distress in June 2019 and after waiting weeks for a permit on the night of June 29, despite a ban by Italians Authorities the port of the island of Lampedusastarted. The much-noticed action met with a divided response. While the assessment by German politicians and the media was largely benevolent, criticism from the Italian side, particularly from Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ( Lega ), was sometimes harsh. The house arrest imposed after Rackete's arrest was lifted by an Italian examining magistrate after three days. On May 19, 2021, the proceedings for resistance to a warship during a mooring maneuver with rescued boat refugees in Lampedusa were finally discontinued.

education and profession

Rackete grew in Lower Saxony Hambühren and graduated in 2007 in Celle the High School on school Ernestinum . Her father is an electrical engineer and a lieutenant colonel . D. the Bundeswehr . She completed a degree in nautical science at Jade University in Elsfleth with a bachelor's degree . Rackete speaks several foreign languages. Before and during her studies, she worked as a nautical officer for two years on the research vessels Polarstern of the Bremerhaven Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Meteor , which is operated by the University of Hamburg . Rackete then drove as a nautical officer on cruise ships as well as on Greenpeace and British Antarctic Survey ships . According to her own information, she has been to Antarctica eight times since 2011 . From 2015 to 2018 she completed a degree in conservation management at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk , England , from which she graduated with a master’s degree.

In 2016, Rackete took part in a mission for the Sea-Watch association for the first time off Libya . In the same year she was also used as a captain on the Sea-Watch 2 . Since 2017 she has coordinated rescue missions for Sea-Watch. In June 2019 she was appointed captain of the Sea-Watch 3 at short notice to replace a failed captain . In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica , she described her motivation to help refugees and migrants coming from North Africa in the Mediterranean as follows: “I have white skin, I was born in a rich country, I have the right passport, me was allowed to attend three universities and graduated at the age of 23. I feel a moral obligation to help those people who did not have my conditions. "In July 2019 she demanded in an interview recording of all refugees through Europe located in Libya and justified this, among other things with the one from the colonial adult responsibility of Europe and the Climate crisis . Carola Rackete is a supporter of the Extinction Rebellion movement .

53 people saved in the Mediterranean

Events in June and July 2019

The Sea-Watch 3 (2018)
The location of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean

After the sea rescue of 53 boat migrants off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean on June 12, 2019, the Sea-Watch 3 was refused entry to the island of Lampedusa by Italian authorities. Rackete drove to the Italian port, 250 nautical miles away, instead of the Libyan port, 47 nautical miles away, because Libya, as the EU Commission also declared, is not a safe place for shipwrecked people. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea states that rescued persons must be moved to a safe place. 13 of the migrants on the Sea-Watch 3 were taken by Italy before the entrance to the port for medical reasons and the ship salvaged . According to Sea-Watch and Rackete, the activists did not consider a trip to Tunisia , which is closer to the city , because they are of the opinion that access to an asylum procedure is an essential part of the “safe place” for rescued castaways . In addition, the country has not behaved cooperatively in the past and had ships with castaways serviced.

The port of Lampedusa (2002)

After Rackete declared an emergency on the night of June 29 due to the situation on board , she decided to call at the port with the 40 remaining migrants despite the port being closed and contrary to the instructions of the Guardia di Finanza . A Guardia di Finanza speedboat, which tried to prevent the Sea-Watch 3 from docking, was pinched and grazed at the pier . When leaving the ship, Rackete was received by the local population with both applause and insult.

Rackete was arrested in the harbor and placed under house arrest. She was initially accused of refusing to obey law enforcement officers, of committing acts of resistance or violence against a warship, and of having sailed a ship into Italian territorial waters in violation of the prohibition as a boat driver.

On July 1, she was brought from Lampedusa to Agrigento , Sicily , to be questioned by an examining magistrate.

House arrest was lifted on July 2, 2019. Coroner Alessandra Vella denied the allegations and ruled that the captain had not broken the law. According to the court ruling of the regional court submitted to the MDR, the judge argued that the obligation to rescue at sea according to international maritime law should be assessed more strongly than the legal regulations in Italy that were changed by Interior Minister Salvini. The captain acted “in the fulfillment of a duty”. The extent of the collision with a boat of the financial police moored on the quay wall was exaggerated in the representation. Rackete was relieved. Rackete could not have headed for a port in Libya or Tunisia because human rights violations were threatened in these countries. Malta was further away than Italy. Vella was heavily attacked by politicians in the Italian government; Interior Minister Salvini described the decision to release the captain as "scandalous" and stressed that he had hoped for a tougher reaction from the Italian judiciary. The coroner was grossly insulted and received death threats on social media. On July 18, UN human rights experts from the UN Human Rights Council condemned the criminalization of sea rescue and the intimidation of the independent Italian judiciary by the media and Interior Minister Salvini.

On July 18, 2019, Carola Rackete spent around four hours answering questions from the Agrigento public prosecutor's office on allegations of aiding and abetting illegal immigration and resistance to a warship. She was released unconditionally and then left Italy.

On the basis of the security decree, a fine of EUR 16,600 was imposed on Rackete, who appealed against it.

At the beginning of September 2019, the public prosecutor in Rome commissioned the search and preservation of evidence of the social media accounts of the former Interior Minister Salvini as part of a libel suit filed by Rackete. The investigation against Salvini has been discontinued.

On May 19, 2021, the proceedings for resistance to a warship during the mooring maneuver in Lampedusa were also discontinued. The examining magistrate, Alessandra Vella, also found here that the accused had not offered any resistance but, on the contrary, had fulfilled the duty of rescue at sea.

Legal Aspects

On June 25, 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed in its decision the “ interim measure requested by the applicants in the case of Rackete and Others v. Italy” v. Italy ”), with which the applicants wanted to obtain permission to dock in Italy through the ECHR, as there was no“ immediate risk of irreparable damage ”at that time.

On June 28, 2019, the Italian public prosecutor opened an investigation. Accordingly, the captain was threatened with a fine of up to 50,000 euros for disregarding the closure of the port and for entering Italian territorial waters, as well as three to ten years in prison for “using force against a warship”. The investigating judge rejected the grounds for detention on July 2, 2019 on all counts. Among other things because the finance police's boat was not a warship. She also stated that the extent of the collision with the financial police boat moored on the quay wall had been exaggerated in the depiction. The Court of Cassation ( Corte Suprema di Cassazione ) in Italy has dismissed the complaint of the public prosecutor's office against the release of the German Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete in January 2020 in the last instance.

It is questionable whether Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini violated Italian law as well as international maritime law to rescue shipwrecked people with his orders on the landing ban, since the legislative decree passed by Salvini de facto overrides the powers of the Interior Minister over international conventions. On July 2, 2019, the investigating judge ruled that NGO ships with their rescue activities do not violate the law and could therefore not be subject to such sanctions (fines).

Article 98 of the Convention on the Law of the Sea provides: "Every state obliges the captain of a ship flying its flag (...) to any person who is found in mortal danger at sea to provide assistance [and] to help people in distress as quickly as possible." For shipping, there are also other international agreements that require assistance. These include the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and the 1979 International Convention on Rescue at Sea . These agreements were signed and ratified by the Netherlands, under whose flag the Sea-Watch 3 was sailing, as well as by Germany, the seat of the Sea-Watch organization, and by Italy , which are thus committed to sea rescue.

The German lawyer Nele Matz-Lück , Professor of International Law at the Walther Schücking Institute , gave the assessment on July 2, 2019 that the captain had to take in the castaways. This should be distinguished from the question of whether rackets were allowed to enter the port. There is no right corresponding to the obligation to accept shipwrecked persons on board in the sense of an obligation to accommodate states on land, there is a loophole in the law of the sea . The question is "whether one can force entry into the port at some point".

Oliver Diggelmann , Professor of International Law at the University of Zurich , said in an interview in the NZZ : "According to known facts, the forced entry into Lampedusa is clearly not covered by international law". Italy is only obliged to allow rescue ships to enter its ports if someone on board is in mortal danger and this danger cannot be remedied on board.

Rackete himself relied on port law in relation to her decision .

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Affected

A Sea-Watch spokesperson explained the decision of the captain to call at the port: "It was the last desperate attempt to ensure the safety of the people." At that time, a political solution for the migrants had already been paved: Several EU countries, including Germany, had agreed to take in those seeking protection. Italy's Interior Minister Salvini demanded appropriate guarantees, without which the migrants would not be allowed to disembark.

In an interview with Spiegel , Rackete said she was ready to face the consequences. If they didn't acquit the courts, the history books would. Rackete told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera about her lawyers : “The situation was hopeless. And my goal was only to bring exhausted and desperate people ashore. "

After her release, Rackete said, according to Sea-Watch, that she had "touched the solidarity that so many people have expressed to me." She sees the decision not to impose any custodial measures against them as a great gain for solidarity with refugees, migrants and asylum seekers and against the criminalization of helpers.

Press

The arrest of Rackete was reported internationally: Le Figaro reported extensively on the events. Further reports appeared in Le Monde , The New York Times , El País , Il Messaggero and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

In addition to the ongoing reporting, comments and contributions from guest authors dealt with Rackete's rescue operation in the German-language press:

The head of the foreign editorial office of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Peter Rásonyi, put Rackete's rescue operation in the context of European migration policy. “The misery of migrants from Africa who are still drowning almost every day in the Mediterranean Sea is hard to bear. Somebody like a racket who wants to rescue people from precarious rubber boats on the open sea and lead them to safe land seems automatically to be in the moral right ”. However, it was an “outrageous violation of the law and a disregard, even a mockery of the Italian state authority” that Rackete with the Sea-Watch 3 “broke into an Italian port, contrary to an explicit ban”. It would be foreseeable that well-meaning rescuers would in future make themselves “implicit partners of the Libyan smugglers” if Italy yielded to “the German moral imperative and people like Rackete”. However, he admitted that it was "honorable and not to be blamed" to help people in need directly.

The Italian philosopher Donatella Di Cesare defended Carola Rackete in a guest post in Die Zeit and compared her to Sophocles ' Antigone : Where the defense of human rights becomes a crime, civil disobedience is the order of the day. “Anyone who undertakes to save human lives is guilty if they fail to do so. A reversal is not acceptable. "

In a philosophical commentary on Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Arnd Pollmann described Carola Rackete with Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the modern embodiment of the heroic. They are characterized by moral integrity and a lack of narcissism and are the counter-thesis to the ancient hero in myth. It is therefore no wonder that they are attacked. They are fearless only in so far as “they have to boldly suppress their fear. Carola Rackete must also have been afraid of prison when she entered the port of Lampedusa ”. These new heroines “are undogmatic perpetrators of conviction. That is exactly what makes them role models . They do not wait any longer for the others and, above all, for those in power to change ”.

While the German media discourse Racketes work is shown mostly in agreement, will be found predominantly in Italian media criticism of it, which is to Shitstorm expanded.

Appeal for donations

Immediately after the arrest, solidarity campaigns started in Germany. On June 29, 2019, TV presenters Jan Böhmermann and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf called for a fundraising campaign . After one day, more than 600,000 euros were raised. Böhmermann described the previous result of the campaign on Twitter as a success and wrote: "This is not only urgently needed money, but also a signal - to the lifesavers and the politically responsible."

A donation campaign launched in Italy for the benefit of the sea rescue organization Sea-Watch and Racketes raised over 400,000 euros by July 1st.

According to a spokesman for the German aid organization Sea-Watch, part of the donations of more than 1.4 million euros will be used for the procedure against Rackete, another for sea rescue.

Italian politics and public

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini rejected any criticism of Italy's behavior and commented on Twitter that his country would not accept instructions from anyone: "Criminal captain arrested, pirate ship confiscated, maximum penalty for the foreign non-governmental organization ." Salvini dubbed Rackete as sbruffoncella (little show-off), the value Make a point of saving water, as this would be of little use. On June 29, 2019, Rackete was described by the German Tagesschau as Salvini's “most important opponent”. Salvini criticized the examining magistrate's decision to release Rackete. For the Italian judiciary , there is "apparently no reason to go to jail if you ignore the law and ram a boat of the financial police". He was ashamed of those who let the first foreigner who came to Italy break the law and endanger the lives of soldiers who did their job. The judicial decision is a request not to stop at security checks and ram police vehicles. The "criminal commander" was expelled because she was a threat to national security. Carola Rackete's lawyer announced that he had prepared a libel suit against Salvini, which Salvini commented on the occasion of a party festival of the Lega in Barzago and used to insult Rackete as a "German tick". (Quote: Italian . "Pure la zecca tedesca mi ha denunciato" , . The German tick has shown me ' ) Salvinis criticism of the release Racketes by an adjudicator commented Reinhard Veser in the FAZ as an attack on the independence of the Italian judiciary. Salvini not only "violated the boundaries of measure and decency, but also laid the ax right on the foundations of the rule of law". Following the filing of the lawsuit, the prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation against Salvini.

In Italy, various surveys showed that the population clearly outweighed Salvini's stance.

The coalition partner of Salvini's Lega party, Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S), as well as the M5S ministers represented in the government agreed with Salvini's position. The party leader of the M5S, Luigi Di Maio , described the actions of the private sea rescuers as "intellectually insincere" and a "political show" aimed at blackening the Italian government. Even the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte did not spare clear criticism of Germany. He saw in the Sea-Watch action the intention to take targeted action against the Italian government in order to challenge them, especially since the captain had not tried enough to find other ports. He interpreted Rackete's actions as blackmail.

However, there were also critical dissenting voices. The Senator Gregorio De Falco criticized Salvini: "Gli Schettino erano a Roma, non a bordo" ( "The Schettinos sat in Rome and [were] not on board "). Leoluca Orlando , mayor of Palermo , announced that it would file charges against the Italian Ministry of the Interior because Rackete had no choice but to land in Lampedusa. According to the Sea-Watch operations manager Philipp Hahn, the entire crew of the Sea-Watch 3 has been offered honorary citizenship of Palermo. Luigi de Magistris , Mayor of Naples , said: “For me, the arrest of Carola Rackete is to be equated with the arrest of humanity . I am ashamed of this government. "

Lega MP Alex Bazzaro attempted to use a photo montage , a fake photo of MPs and Sea-Watch 3 at lunch on board, to exploit the process for the dispute with the Partito Democratico .

German politics

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas ( SPD ) commented on the arrest of Rackete with "Sea rescue must not be criminalized". Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also criticized Rackete's arrest. Federal Development Aid Minister Gerd Müller ( CSU ) demanded that the European Union demand the immediate release of Rackete.

Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble ( CDU ) affirmed that “you have to rescue people who are in distress at sea”, but sea rescue organizations should avoid sending the wrong signals.

The federal chairwoman of the Greens , Annalena Baerbock , accused Horst Seehofer that Rackete should not have been arrested in the port if he had made it clear early on that people from those rescued on board the Sea-Watch were allowed to come to Germany. Regarding sea rescue, she said: "The fact that people are arrested to save the lives of other people and to comply with the international law of the sea does not correspond to my understanding of Europe."

Several AfD representatives expressed their approval of the arrest of Rackete. For Beatrix von Storch , Rackete is an “accomplice of the tugs”. Petr Bystron said in an interview: “There is a European consensus that smuggling in the Mediterranean is illegal. Therefore the arrest of Ms. Rackete is a completely normal process. "

The foreign policy spokesman for the FDP , Bijan Djir-Sarai , argued that the rule of law is “extremely jeopardized” “if laws are broken based on ethical motives”.

Dutch politics

The Sea-Watch 3 has mainly German crews, but sails under the Dutch flag. In the Netherlands, the largest ruling party, the VVD , stated that non-governmental organizations that deliberately pick up people without permission must be condemned for facilitating human trafficking. Spokesman Jeroen van Wijngaarden said: "You are actually not a rescue service, but a ferry service". Within the Dutch coalition government they received support from the CDA , and there was in principle a majority in the Dutch parliament that supported it. However, the other two parties in the coalition government protested strongly against this statement.

Austrian politics

The Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen said on July 1st on the occasion of the visit of the Italian President Sergio Mattarella to Vienna : "If I see a boat in distress on an inland lake in Austria and do not rush to help, then I will be punished for failure to provide assistance - but I am not punished for providing this help. "

The Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz , head of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) , on the other hand, supported the course of Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. In an interview he said of the ship operators: "They only arouse false hopes and thus unintentionally lure even more people into danger". As long as the rescue in the Mediterranean was linked to a ticket to Europe, more and more people were on their way. "If we ensure that everyone who sets out illegally is returned to their country of origin or to a country of transit, we will stop illegal migration, destroy the smugglers' business and, most importantly, end the drowning in the Mediterranean at last."

French and Luxembourg politics

The Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn , as well as Christophe Castaner , the French Interior Minister , assessed the closure of the ports as a violation of the law of the sea. Asselborn called for Rackete's release and stated that she was “under an obligation” to bring the migrants to Lampedusa.

The city of Paris intended to award Carola Rackete and Pia Klemp , who was also the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 , the Médaille de la Ville de Paris in the highest level Grand vermeil . This is intended to “honor the solidarity and commitment to respecting human rights”. On August 21, 2019, it was announced that Pia Klemp rejected the award and criticized the Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for her dealings with migrants.

Catalan politics

The Parliament of Catalonia awarded Carola Rackete and the founder of the Proactiva Open Arms , Oscar Camps, his Medal of Honor in September 2019. The laudation was given by Pep Guardiola .

United Nations and other organizations

On the issue of sea rescue, which Rackete had raised, said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres : “Sea rescue is a long-standing humanitarian imperative that is also required by international law. No ship or skipper should be threatened with fines if he comes to the aid of boats in distress where people would otherwise lose their lives. "

After Rackete was released by an examining magistrate, the Secretary General of Amnesty International in Germany, Markus N. Beeko , stated that Rackete was obliged by maritime law to rescue people from distress at sea and to bring them to the nearest safe harbor. That was confirmed by the Italian court.

Doctors Without Borders called for an immediate end to the criminalization and blockade of civil sea rescue. It is cynical "that the EU states, with the help of the Libyan coast guard and through targeted measures against civilian rescue ships, are making it almost impossible to escape from this conflict area," said the organization's deputy managing director in Germany.

Church representatives

The council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany , Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , who visited Sea-Watch 3 in early June , said the arrest was a “shame for Europe” and made him “sad and angry”.

The special commissioner for refugee issues and chairman of the migration commission of the German Bishops' Conference , Hamburg's Archbishop Stefan Heße , said that Rackete had followed a clear ethical imperative . Drowning people have to be rescued “without ifs or buts”. Whoever saves a life like the captain is following Jesus .

Social media

In social media the arrest Carola Racketes and their behavior were often and controversial. A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry condemned the kind of online threats and hate speech that resulted in the German sea rescue ship captain hiding in a secret location after her release as completely unacceptable.

Further political engagement

Carola Rackete is involved in other political fields beyond the refugee issue. She supports the Extinction Rebellion movement , which organizes protests on the subject of climate protection. On November 12, 2020, Rackete was attacked by the police in the Dannenröder forest after a tree was occupied . taken into custody for identification purposes and given a five-day dismissal .

In February 2021, Carola Rackete spoke out in an alliance with Christoph Lübcke , Max Uthoff , Ruprecht Polenz , Beate Klarsfeld and many others against the funding of the AfD-affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation and warned against the “foundation trick of the AfD ”.

Book publication

With acting instead of hope , Rackete published a book on environmental policy in autumn 2019, in which she also addresses the organization of democratic processes with her own ideas and advocates social transformation. The book was received controversially.

Awards

Awarding of the Karl Küpper Prize to Rackete (2020)

Publications

Movie

  • Sea Watch 3 : NDR film documentary, the filmmakers Nadia Kailouli and Jonas Schreijäg accompanied the Sea Watch 3 on its rescue trip in June 2019 for 21 days, until Carola Rackete was arrested.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Carola Rackete  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Videos

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Racket, Carola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and climate protection activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz