For Italy’s Minister of the interior, but in this case she is a Criminal: The German captain Carola Missiles high penalties, because it has controlled the “Sea-Watch 3” in spite of the prohibition in Italian waters. What drives you?
“I have decided, in the port of Lampedusa to retract. I know what I’m risking, but the 42 Rescued are exhausted. I now bring you to safety.” The words of Carola Missiles (article image), the German Association of Sea Watch will be widespread on Wednesday on Twitter, were the culmination of a nervous war, in which Italy’s right-wing populist, you referred to the interior Minister and Northern League chief Matteo Salvini, among other things, as a “rogue” and criminal. Since then, a 31-Year-old from lower Saxony, has made headlines in Germany and beyond.
Missiles is not the first German ship commander who gained international prominence. In may Claus-Peter Reisch, who was rescued in July of 2018, with the ship in “Lifeline”, more than 230 refugees from the Mediterranean sea, was convicted in Malta, to a fine of 10,000 euros. The Bonnerin Pia Klemp, who has saved with the “Iuventa” and the “Sea-Watch 3” Thousands of lives threatened in Italy to 20 years in prison.
Matteo Salvini, who drives a hard line against migrants, described the “Sea-Watch 3” on Twitter as a “pirate ship”
As Reisch and Klemp now having to take Missiles with criminal prosecution. Because it has controlled, despite of a ban by the government in Rome, the “Sea-Watch 3” in Italian territorial waters, after the ship drifted for around two weeks in the Mediterranean, to threaten her, according to a new law up to 50.000 Euro penalty and a prosecution for aiding and abetting illegal immigration. In addition, the ship could be seized, as Salvini threatened on Monday on Twitter. On Tuesday night, the European people had been dismissed by the law court in Strasbourg an application for a temporary injunction of the crew to be in Italy to create. According to the Missiles and the despair on Board was great. Some of the migrants would have considered to jump on Board. Two have now been brought in as a “medical emergency” in the country. Currently, the “Sea-Watch 3 bobs up and down” in the immediate vicinity of the port of Lampedusa.
“I feel a moral obligation”
Who’s the woman, who has embarked on a risky David versus Goliath battle with the Italian government? Missiles, since 2018 is the captain of the “Sea-Watch 3”, has for four years for the organization. Previously, the commander, has completed training as a Nautical officer and a master’s degree in “Conservation management” at Edge Hill University in the English-Ormskirk, worked for the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar – and marine research, and was for Greenpeace.
The image, drawing the media of Missiles, is not a Person who would like to be perceived as a personal opponent of Salvini. “His opponent is the whole of civil society”, – quotes the German press Agency the captain. It is about “the principle of human rights”, so Missiles. It was for the “Rescued” responsible “and can’t hold out anymore. Your life comes before any political game,” she said to the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”.
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Rescue vessel “Sea Watch 3” is stopped off the coast of Lampedusa
Racketes desire to help people in Need, in their own words, with their relatively privileged situation in life. “I have a white skin color, I was born in a rich country, I have the right passport, I was able to visit three universities and has had 23 years to get my degree,” she said, “La Repubblica”. “I feel a moral obligation to help those people that had my requirements.”
Heroine or a Criminal?
For her commitment will be celebrated Missiles, but also vilified and criminalized – not only of Salvini. Italy’s agricultural Minister, Gian Marco Centinaio accused them of treating the Italians as “the village idiot”. The Boss of the right party, Fratelli d’italia, Giorgia Meloni, called the “Sea-Watch 3″ had to be sunk””. For the left-wing politicians in Italy Missiles, however, is a “brave woman” and “hope for a human world”. The Left party politician Katja Kipping, wrote on Twitter that she was “full of respect” in front of the Crew with Missiles. The refugee Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein and the former Maritime search and rescue Stefan Schmidt showed solidarity. “I admire Mrs Missiles, because under these circumstances, the nerves, and to be a support for the refugees on Board, is not easy at all,” he told the German press Agency. TV-Moderator Jan böhmermann announced to collect donations for any legal costs.
Of their own determination, all this praise from the Outside, however, Missiles can feel the pressure on your Person. To have your decision, you felt “especially by the EU and the Italian state urged. We have really tried a lot, we wanted a political solution. Anything was possible,” she said in an Interview with “now”, the young online magazine of the süddeutsche Zeitung. The current Situation was “a big burden”. Like all the others on Board she was overtired “completely. All the Rescued are traumatized and I can’t accurately estimate when the Situation gets out of control. It is incredibly frustrating that from the Italian state, nothing comes.”
Now but might come up a bit. In a Skype Interview with international journalists in Rome Missiles, said this Friday that she was “really very concerned, particularly in terms of injuries, possible Self”. You have heard, that the political negotiations were underway. May be it could be in “a few hours” a solution.