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Spanish fishing vessel stuck in Mediterranean for rescuing 12 migrants
2018-11-29
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Spanish fishing vessel has been stranded in the Mediterranean for days because no country has agreed to accept the 12 migrants colonists on board which it rescued last week, the boat’s captain said Tuesday.

"We have been left in the lurch at sea, we can’t go anywhere," Captain Pascual Dura of the "Nuestra Madre Loreto" told AFP by telephone.

Since Thursday the 13 crew members of the fishing vessel have hosted 12 migrants colonists from Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
and Egypt who they rescued from a rubber dinghy that had set sail from Libya to Europe.

Italia and Malta have refused to allow the boat to dock and unload the migrants colonists while Spain’s maritime rescue service only offered to return the migrants colonists to Libya, Dura said.

"If we go to Libya, we run the risk of a mutiny... when they hear the word Libya they get very nervous and hysterical, it is hard to calm them down," he added.

"We don’t want to return them to Libya. After they managed to get here, we don’t want to return them to the place they are fleeing from."

Abuse of migrants colonists is widespread in Libya, following the chaos, which has reigned since the 2011 ousting of dictator Muammar Ghaddafi.

Many migrants colonists, intercepted or rescued at sea, find themselves held in detention centers in the country in dire conditions.

Dura said the ship only had enough provisions and fuel for "six or seven" more days and a storm was approaching.

Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell confirmed that Italia and Malta refused to allow the fishing vessel to dock but added the situation "is not an emergency".

The fact that the Spanish fishing vessel was operating in Libyan waters "complicates the situation".

The regional government of Valencia, where the fishing vessel is based, offered to accept the migrants colonists.

In June the Valencia government also offered to accept 630 migrants colonists from the Aquarius charity-run rescue ship after Italia and Malta refused to harbor the vessel.

Spain then allowed the Aquarius to dock and the migrants colonists were distributed among several European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
nations.

More than 106,000 migrants colonists have arrived in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
by sea since the start of the year, according to the International Organization for Migration, and at least 2,119 others have died in the process.

Posted by:Fred

#4  "If we go to Libya, we run the risk of a mutiny... when they hear the word Libya they get very nervous and hysterical, it is hard to calm them down," he added

*at gunpoint* "Time for a swim!"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-29 13:41  

#3  Flying the Yellow Jack they be.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-11-29 13:36  

#2  Maybe the captain could use them for chum?
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-29 12:19  

#1  
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-11-29 06:45  

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