The 46 migrants took to the port of Crotone this morning at the end of the days from the humanitarian ship Louise Michel. The journey, which lasted almost 40 hours, began after the rescue operation that took place three days ago in Libyan Sar waters, in the Sicily channel, where the Louise Michel crew rescued 197 people. The others had already been transferred to a patrol boat of the Italian Coast Guard and conducted in Lampedusa.
To the ship with the 46 migrants left on board – including 10 minors, 4 women and a newborn baby – was awarded as a safe harbor Crotone. Migrants come from Eritrea (23), Pakistan (18), Somalia (3) and Bangladesh (2). The landing operations were coordinated by the Prefecture, with the intervention of the Immigration Office of the Police Headquarters, the Scientific Police and the Healthcare Staff of the Vulnerability Office of the Asp of Crotone, which did not find particular medical critical issues. The 46 were then transferred to the Reception center of Isola Capo Rizzuto.
Louise Michel is an ex -French boat of the French Navy 30 meters long, capable of reaching 28 knots, purchased thanks to the proceeds of the sale of a work by the Banksy artist. Managed by a crew composed largely by women, Louise Michel bears the name of the French anarchist and revolutionary of the nineteenth century, protagonist of the Municipality of Paris. In his honor, the ship combines the commitment to rescue at sea with ideals of feminism queer, anti -racism and anti -fascism.