'We give you 30 minutes': Malta turns migrant boat away with directions to Italy
by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo from on (#53PAD)
Survivors say an armed forces' patrol vessel intercepted an overloaded dinghy, giving the refugees fuel and GPS coordinates for Sicily
The Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) allegedly turned away at gunpoint a boat carrying migrants from their waters, after giving them fuel and the GPS coordinates to reach Italy.
Exclusive footage is said to show an AFM vessel refusing to rescue a small rubber boat carrying 101 asylum seekers reportedly in Maltese territorial waters and instead providing them with the equipment to continue their journey to Italy. Many of the migrants leapt into the water to try to reach the boat, mistakenly thinking they were being rescued.
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