Fascist boat against sea rescue has been rescued at sea

antifainternational:

queeranarchism:

The boat that went to the mediterranean to ‘disrupt rescue missions’ has been rescued at sea – by a group dedicated to refugee rescue at sea.

Defend Europe, an offshoot of the white nationalist Identitarian movement, crowdfunded the ship ‘C-Star’ last spring with claims it would target NGO’s that try to rescue refugees.

C-Star entered the mediterranean on 15 July 2017 and has been on it’s mission for less than a month. Late July it met it’s first obstacle within that same month when it’s ship was held and it’s crew detained on charges of human smuggling. 

Today, on August 11th, 2017, C-Star’s engine broke down and it send out a distress call. EU naval forces in the area passed on this distress call to Sea-Eye, a German volunteer run ship dedicated to rescuing refugees at sea. 

Sea-Eye came to C-Star’s aid, reporting “To help in distressed persons is the duty of everyone who is at sea – indifferent to their origin, skin color, religion or spirit.”

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/11/anti-immigrant-defend-europe-vessel-has-rescued-mediterranean/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/08/11/le-bateau-anti-migrants-c-star-secouru-par-une-ong-pro-refugies_a_23074496/
• http://www.ankaradegillefkosa.org/the-anti-refugee-boat-is-involved-in-human-smuggling/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/27/anti-migrant-boat-crew-arrested-famagusta-cyprus-people-smuggling

This is the funniest news ever. 

They were never in any real life-or-dead peril but obviously this blog supports letting fascists drown. 

“Fascists that want refugees to drown drown”

would have made an even better headline. 

But with such massive incompetence, who knows what the future holds?