We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean – and Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It | | The Iuventa Crew: On Saturday 21 May in the seaside spot of Trapani, Sicily, four of us – crew members from the search-and-rescue ship Iuventa – will face an Italian prosecutor. The charge against us? Running rescue missions that potentially saved over 14,000 people from drowning in the central Mediterranean.
It should never have fallen to volunteers to be leading humanitarian rescue operations in a heavily policed sea patrolled by the coastguards and navies of some of the world's most powerful nations. But initially there was a cooperative and productive relationship with the Italian coastguard and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre.They had to acknowledge us as a significant part of the necessary rescue efforts, and would routinely send us to distress calls.
Little did we know that from 2016, the institutions we worked with were spying on us. One night in August 2017, we'd just completed a rescue mission. Three coastguard boats, blue sirens flashing, came to escort us into Lampedusa port in southern Italy. Upon entering the port, the blue lights revealed a mass of waiting people – journalists and police. The entire Iuventa crew was later arrested. Our ship was seized and impounded. We have waited five years for our trial date and may have to wait far longer for the result. | |  | OPINION What the British Media is Missing About the Rise of Sinn Féin by Ciarán O'Rourke
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