Italy refuses safe harbor to migrant ship, Spain also reluct

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 13 Aug 2018, 23:26

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-euro ... SKBN1KY17H

It Spain's recent policy of taking in migrant ships refused entry elsewhere has abruptly ended. Which means we have reached a turning point. If the people operating the ship that picked them up knows that it will have nowhere to go once full of migrants then it cannot continue to keep picking them up. Can it even take them back to Libya? Presumably so, or else they have a major problem on their hands.

But by this mechanism, the migrations will surely end. There is no point in paying the people-traffickers Â£1000s if your prospect of actually arriving in Europe is very low.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 14 Aug 2018, 11:26

We can but hope!!

Post by **adam2** » 14 Aug 2018, 13:39

kenneal - lagger wrote:We can but hope!!

Do not raise your hopes ! Eventually the ship will dock somewhere in Western Europe, and the migrants on board will be offloaded.
And the ship will return to collect some more.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 14 Aug 2018, 14:50

It will have to sail a lot further to dump its human cargo than before, if it can find anyone who will allow it to do so, so it will be picking up a lot fewer people for its taxi service. France would be the nearest if Spain and Italy have closed the doors and given that France has closed its border with Italy to migrants I can't see them being very hospitable. Then it would be Greece or the Adriatic countries and they haven't been too hospitable to refugees either.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 14 Aug 2018, 19:33

https://www.aol.co.uk/video/view/migran ... d0c0d7401/

Migrant boat turns down Aquarius rescue attempt

A boatload of Tunisian migrants declined to be rescued by the charity ship Aquarius, highlighting the many challenges it faces trying to help stricken people adrift in the Mediterranean.

cubes · Post by **cubes** » 19 Aug 2018, 14:05

The people running these rescue ships need to be investigated (if they're not being already) to see the top people have links to the trafficers. I can't believe there is one somewhere tbh.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 19 Aug 2018, 17:37

UndercoverElephant wrote:https://www.aol.co.uk/video/view/migran ... d0c0d7401/

Migrant boat turns down Aquarius rescue attempt

A boatload of Tunisian migrants declined to be rescued by the charity ship Aquarius, highlighting the many challenges it faces trying to help stricken people adrift in the Mediterranean.

Maybe that wasn't the "taxi" that they had booked!!

Post by **adam2** » 06 Jul 2019, 20:03

This is ongoing.
A migrant ship has been refused permission to dock in Italy, but has still done so.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48896038