It’s yellow on the ship Louise Michael. Since this afternoon, the German-flagged speedboat operated by the NGO financed by Bansky has been breaking into Italian territorial waters. It is not clear what the purpose is because at the moment there is no assignment of a port for the NGO and there are no new posts on social networks other than the one in which she asked for the immediate disembarkation, so there does not seem to be any elements that could indicate an imminent landing.
The first entry in state waters The Italian crew of Louise Michel was registered just before 15:00, when the ship appeared to be bow-pointed towards the port of Lampedusa, as assigned to her by the Italian authorities. The ship was sailing on this course for about an hour when she suddenly turned and headed outward. The Louise Michel entered Italian territorial waters near Lampedusa from the south-eastern quadrant and left international waters a few hours later from the south-western quadrant.
A very brief stop, that of the ship, which after just an hour re-entered Italian territorial waters from the same quadrant. At around 6:30 p.m. he crossed the Italian sea border for the second time, but this time his route did not lead towards the port. The ship cuts through Italian territorial waters in a southwest-northeast direction, completely ignoring the island of Lampedusa, from which it is only 4 miles away. Less than an authorization by the Italian authorities to cross Italian waters with 33 irregular migrants on board, of which at the moment it is not known if there are any, the Louise Michel deliberately violated the Italian space, which seems like a provocation by the German NGO.
But while NGOs continue to harass (and breach) Italy’s borders, France has once again raised the level of confrontation with Italy. On the one hand, the Italian government has actually eased tensions in recent weeks and reached out to France to underscore cooperative intentions in parts of today Emmanuel Macron A decision was taken to contain the outbreak, stressing that “the knots with Italy have not yet been untied in terms of immigration”. In particular, France accuses our country of not changing its position “on the application of flag state law.
A convenience principle that of France as Italy and Malta have the SAR areas bordering Libya from which most departures take place. Tomorrow Giorgia Meloni will be in Alicante Eu-Med 9 with Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain and among the many topics that of migration to Europe is also addressed.