Activist Luca Casarini,
mission chief of the migrant rescue NGO Mediterraneo, has been
placed under investigation for his part in the rescue of 50
migrants by the Mare Jonio ship off Libya earlier this week,
sources said Friday.
Casarini has been accused of complicity in suspected crimes
already posited against the ship's commander.
The captain was placed under investigation for favouring
illegal immigration and refusing to obey an order from a
warship.
Captain Pietro Marrone is accused of disobeying a command not
to bring the migrants into Italian territorial waters.
"I would do it all again, to save people's lives" Marrone
said.
"What was I supposed to do, let them die?".
The ship, run by the Rome-based NGO Mediterranea, which is
also under investigation, said it rescued the migrants from a
sinking boat off Libya.
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