Rescue ship captain arrested for breaking Italian blockade
by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo from World news | The Guardian on (#4J6BD)
Carola Rackete reaches Sicily with 40 people on Sea-Watch 3 in defiance of Salvini ban
The captain of a rescue ship carrying 40 people has been arrested for breaking an Italian naval blockade that was trying to stop her from docking the vessel in Lampedusa.
After a two-week standoff with Italian authorities, Carola Rackete, docked the German boat Sea-Watch 3 on the Sicilian island on Saturday in defiance of a ban by the country's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini.
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