Open arms
Open Arms in November 2019 in the port of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
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The Open Arms is a ship used by the non-governmental organization Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Libya to rescue migrants and refugees in distress at sea . Before that it was used as a tug . The ship sails under the Spanish flag, home port is Bilbao .
description
The tug designed by Cintranaval-Defcar was built in 1974 as one of three structurally identical tugs for the Compañía de Remolcadores Ibaizaba in Getxo . It is driven by a Deutz diesel engine of the type RBV12M350.
history
The ship was acquired by Proactiva Open Arms in early 2017 due to the humanitarian emergency and numerous drowning people in connection with immigration to the EU via the Mediterranean Sea and used for sea rescue.
On March 16, 2018, the ship rescued 218 migrants and refugees from rubber dinghies about 70 to 75 nautical miles north of the Libyan coast . During this rescue operation far in international waters , the crew was threatened by the Libyan coast guard with firearms to surrender the refugees on board. The Open Arms crew refused because Libya could not guarantee security. The MRCC Rome then refused, with reference to the Libyans, to send an Italian coast guard ship or other ships to take over the rescued. For two days, the Open Arms was not allowed to enter a port in the Mediterranean. Then the Spaniards were finally allowed to land in the ferry port of Pozzallo ( Sicily ) due to two acute medical emergencies . The public prosecutor's office in Catania confiscated the rescue ship here - similar to the Iuventa in the port of Lampedusa the year before . As a result, 29 university experts on international law turned to the public because they saw it as an Italian violation of international maritime and international law. The ship was released on April 16, 2018 by court order that Proactiva acted correctly because Libya is not considered a safe place for the repatriation of migrants and refugees. The public prosecutor's investigations into the occupation are continuing.
On August 2, 2019, the Proactiva Open Arms had saved a total of 123 people in two missions with the Open Arms . 55 people, mostly from Eritrea, were taken on board off the Libyan coast on August 1, and another 68 the next day. Italian authorities initially did not give permission to land the people. 39 migrants and refugees arrived a few days later. On August 15, Giuseppe Conte announced a solution according to which Germany, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania and Spain want to accept the people.
The captain turned down an offer from Spain to call at the Balearic Islands. Founder Óscar Camps said that the crew was overwhelmed with a journey of several days to Spain, and that the safety of the passengers could not be guaranteed. After several migrants, who had previously been taken in, jumped overboard at the anchor position of the Open Arms in order to swim to nearby Lampedusa, the Italian public prosecutor's office ordered the people to be brought ashore on August 20. The ship was seized by the public prosecutor's office on suspicion of deprivation of liberty and abuse of office in order to clarify the chain of command that prevented the rescue ship from docking in Lampedusa for weeks. The public prosecutor's office accuses former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini of having detained the rescued migrants on the rescue ship beyond his authority. Salvini's immunity was lifted at the end of July 2020 to enable a trial in Palermo.
On January 11, 2020, the activists took in 118 people in two rescue missions. It was not until January 14 that the rescue ship was assigned a safe harbor in Italy.
Since January 27, 2020, the activists have taken in several groups of migrants from distress off the Libyan coast. Led by the Alarm Phone Initiative , a total of 363 migrants who had previously reported emergencies by telephone were admitted to the ship. Despite a call for help, one of the boats could only be tracked down by activists of the pilot's initiative with the Moonbird plane . The crew of the Open Arms initially wanted to call at Malta with reference to scarce supplies, but they refused. Ultimately, on February 2, Italy agreed to let the people in Sicily disembark.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ibaizabal Tres , Baixamar. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
- ↑ CND Designs of Tugboats & Offshore Vessels , Quick Reference, Cintranaval-Defcar (PDF file, 9.4 MB). Retrieved April 3, 2018.
- ↑ Emiliano Mouzo: El remolcador "Ibaizabal Tres" ya fue como bautizado "Open Arms" , La Voz de Galicia, April 5, 2017. Accessed April 3 2018th
- ↑ Refugees: NGO ship does not receive a landing permit . Published on March 16, 2018 in Kurier.at . Accessed April 2, 2018.
- ^ Gregor Rom: Aid Mission: Brandenburg doctor is back home . Published on March 31, 2018 in Märkische Allgemeine . Accessed March 31, 2018.
- ↑ Ann-Christin Schneider: Sensitive incident: Italian authorities seize refugee rescue ship . Published on March 19, 2018 in Focus online . Accessed April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Statement by 29 academics on Italy seizing the rescue boat Open Arms , accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Ivan Camilleri: Migrant rescue ship released by Sicilian authorities . Times of Malta, April 20, 2018, accessed May 23, 2018
- ↑ Lorenzo Tondo and Sam Jones: Migrant-rescue boat Open Arms released by Italian authorities , The Guardian, April 16, 2018.
- ↑ Open Arms salva altri 69 migranti, ora sono in 123 a bordo . repubblica.it of August 2, 2019
- ^ After a strict no from Italy - "Alan Kurdi" sets course for Malta . welt.de from August 2, 2019
- ↑ Six countries want to take in migrants - including Germany . welt.de from August 15, 2019
- ↑ Spain criticizes Italy for the rescue ship "Open Arms". In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ "Open Arms" lands in Lampedusa - Germany takes in migrants . welt.de from August 21, 2019
- ↑ Migrants go ashore on Lampedusa . Time August 21, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019.
- ↑ Senate lifts former Interior Minister Salvini's immunity . Time, July 31, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020.
- ↑ "Asylum seekers being brought to Malta - AFM" timesofmalta.com from January 12, 2020
- ↑ "Sea-Watch 3" and "Open Arms" are allowed to dock . Deutschlandfunk, January 14, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020.
- ↑ "Open Arms, sbarcano a Pozzallo i 363 naufraghi" ilmanifesto.it from February 1, 2020
- ^ "Italy lets rescue ship with 363 migrants dock" Welt, February 2, 2020