Migrants, the Ocean Viking helps a boat in the night: sixty people, including a baby

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Migrants, a newborn who had not been drinking for two days among the people saved by Alan Kurdi

of ALESSANDRA ZINITI

Yesterday, November 28, the two bailouts of Alan Kurdi in front of Libya. In the afternoon, the German NGO Sea Eye ship rescued a first inflatable boat with 44 people on board, including three children and 21 women, one pregnant.

Around 5 pm the second intervention: another boat with 40 migrants was approached and rescued by the ship. Also in this case there were children and women on board. One of them was brought unconscious by the raft directly to the hospital on board. On a twitter the NGO has defined its "critical" conditions.

Open Arms landing in Taranto: having stopped two alleged smugglers, one is a minor

During the investigation started immediately after the landing of the 62 migrants arrived on board the ship on Tuesday Open Arms, in the port of Taranto, agents of the Squadra Mobile of the Ionian capital, in collaboration with the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza and in synergy with the colleagues of the Squadra Mobile di Ragusa, identified two young Gambians, respectively 18 and 16, the scafisti of the raft on which the refugees and migrants rescued in the Mediterranean sea traveled.The group of sailors, part of whom landed in the port of Augusta, because they needed immediate care, was rescued by the Open Arms ship on 21 November, off the coast of Africa.

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Open Arms, in Taranto at the start the landing of 62 migrants rescued offshore by the Spanish NGO

Immediately after the landing in Taranto, the two Central Africans were indicated by some traveling companions as the boat's drivers, who were the only ones in possession of a compass and a cell phone which, then, was used to call for help.

The two were also equipped with a knife and a stick to use against the compatriots on the boat if the need arose. Upon arrival of the rescue, they would also attempt to camouflage themselves among the other immigrants, ordering their traveling companions not to report what their role was during the navigation.

It was possible to ascertain that the two detainees would have gained an economic advantage from the collaboration offered to foreign criminal organizations that profit from human trafficking: they would not have paid, in fact, the quota foreseen for the crossing, equal to 2 thousand Libyan dinars, requested to get on board. The adult was accompanied to prison while the presumed minor, already transferred to a reception center, was reported to the Public Prosecutor of the Juvenile Court.

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