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.
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