(AFP) A Spanish charity which operates a migrant rescue boat in the Mediterranean said Wednesday that a court in Italy has suspended a government decree banning its vessel from entering Italian territorial waters.
The Open Arms boat is currently sailing off the coast of Italy’s southern Lampedusa island with 147 migrants who were plucked from boats in the Mediterranean this month. Both Italy and Malta refused it permission to dock and unload its passengers.
“We won the appeal which we filed at an administrative court in Italy against the security decree,” the founder of Proactiva Open Arms which operates the boat, Oscar Camps, told a news conference in Madrid.
