NGO run migrant rescue ships will be
fined up to one million euros for defying a ban on entering
Italian waters under a new League amendment to the government's
second security and migrants decree.
NGO skippers will be arrested if they fail to obey the orders
of police or navy ships, a second amendment said.
Sea-Watch3 captain Carola Rackete was questioned in Agrigento
Thursday on suspicion of aiding illegal immigration and refusing
to obey a navy ship.
Leaving the prosecutor's office she appealed for all
countries to take in rescued migrants.
Rackete, 31, defied Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's closed
ports policy to land 40 migrants at Lampedusa recently saying
some had threatened suicide 17 days after being picked up off
Libya.
He arrest for flouting the ban and allegedly ramming a police
boat was not upheld in a ruling that angered Salvini supporters.
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