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Italian authorities issue yet another detention order for MSF’s rescue ship Geo Barents [1]

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Date: 2024-09

Just as the MSF team was about to finish the rescue, with no more than 20 out of 110 people left in the boat, a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat, donated by Italy, arrived on the scene.

“The Libyan patrol boat arrived when we were almost finished with the operation, more than five hours after the first alert about these people in distress,” said Fulvia Conte, MSF search and rescue team leader. “They arrived, threatened to shoot, and carried out unsafe and intimidating maneuvers around the people in distress and the MSF rescue team.”

This is the fourth detention order for Geo Barents under the Piantedosi decree, following an order issued a month ago, also for 60 days. That ruling was suspended on September 12 by the Civil Court of Salerno, which acknowledged the lifesaving humanitarian nature of MSF’s search and rescue work aboard the Geo Barents.

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[1] Url: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/italian-authorities-issue-yet-another-detention-order-msfs-rescue-ship-geo-barents

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