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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 "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 ... 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 "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 Many 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 In June the Valencia government also offered to accept 630 Spain then allowed the Aquarius to dock and the ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nations. More than 106,000 ...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 |