Italian judge says German captain acted to protect human life: ruling

Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old Sea-Watch 3 captain, disembarks from a Finance police boat, in Porto Empedocle, Italy July 1, 2019. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

AGRIGENTO, Italy - An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday that the German captain of a rescue charity ship had not broken the law when she forced a naval blockade at the weekend, saying she had been carrying out her duty to protect human life. Carola Rackete, a 31-year-old German national, disobeyed Italian military orders and entered the port of Lampedusa on Saturday to bring some 41 African migrants to land in the Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch boat.

She was immediately detained and placed under house arrest, but in a blow for Italy’s hardline interior minister, Matteo Salvini, Judge Alessandra Vella ruled that Rackete had been carrying out her duty and had not committed any act of violence.

Non c'è da stupirsi, quando i criminali della legge stanno diventando sempre di più! Per la magistratura italiana, ignorare le leggi e attaccare una nave della polizia non è motivo di reclusione.

But where did she pick them up from and why?. She surely can't dock again with more now at least.

This seems broad. So broad that you can justify just about anything under the guise of 'protecting human life'.

MondayStory It's the 'human' bit that the Italian govt has problem with

Malavita = estado de exceção, ilegal.

Nuts

Bad move Italy

Italian far left self claiming judge, free a terrorist attempting to murder 5 Italian police officers. Soros Gang

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Was that before or after she rammed a police vessel ?

forced migration movements is a problem that EU should be looking at as a whole; it is not just politics & economics its human lives at stake

How rome has fallen

More like paid well

Bet Salvinis fucking furious. Great stuff

Well that is the law of the sea, why don't media look it up sometime

she is aiding n abetting human traffickers They paid money to get a floating boat n she picked them up to get what they wanted to go to EU

Italian government should help her and appreciate the nature what she possesses towards human instead she is been put up on a trial.Inspiring women ...let’s support her.

Another leftist BS court ruling. What is it in judges that they can't follow the rules strictly, except against law abiding tax payers who make a mistake?

Way to go judge .. Hats off !

'acted to protect human life' by ramming a boat into another vessel... carrying human life. The German captain is scum.

not all heroes wear capes!

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