Italy: German rescue ship with more than 800 migrants on board docks in Sicily

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After spending several days and nights in the Mediterranean sea, the German ship Sea-Eye 4 docked in Trapani, Sicily, on Sunday with more than 800 rescued migrants on board after receiving permission from the Italian authorities.
The ship had more than 170 minors and five pregnant women on board who were rescued at sea by the Bavarian based organisation in seven missions over the past few days.
The Red Cross as well as the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) helped with the disembarkation and provided supplies at the port.
The ship first planned to set a course for the southern Italian island of Lampedusa but had to change plans due to the overcrowding of facilities.
Over 54,000 migrants took the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing to reach Europe this year.

SOT, Giovanna Di Benedetto, Member of Save the Children (Italian): “About 170 minors are on board. We do not know if they are alone or accompanied. There are families. Nationalities are different but all mostly African many West African countries some even come from Somalia or North Africa such as Egypt and Morocco.”

SOT, Giovanna Di Benedetto, Member of Save the Children (Italian): “Save the Children has left many appeals in this sense, that a direct intervention of the member states and the European Union is necessary in order to create a coordinated and effective structured system of search and rescue in the Mediterranean which then ends with the assignment of the Safe Harbor.”

SOT, Antonio Sparaco, Provincial Health Authority (Italian): “We are proceeding to conduct COVID swabs some onboard, with the help of the Italian Red Cross and some on the ground.”

SOT, Antonio Sparaco, Provincial Health Authority (Italian): “Great physical suffering are in the cases of a woman with a threat of abortion, someone who has some bruises, caused by the moment in which they were rescued, transported onboard, some small surgical problem that has continued over time even in the country of origin. But overall the situation is not bad.”

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