Criminal proceedings against the crew
members of the NGOs Jugend Rettet, Save The Children and
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) ended
after seven years Friday with acquittals for the 10 defendants
accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration in the
so-called 'Iuventa' case, after one of the rescue ships
involved, a Jugend Rettet vessel.
The humanitarian organisations were accused by prosecutors in
Trapani of having made agreements with human traffickers and not
having actually given aid to refugees but having acted as their
'taxis', transferring them from Libyan ships to which they
allegedly then also allowed them to return undisturbed.
"The truth has been recognised," said Save tthe Children.
MSF said "we have got through seven years of defamatory slogans
and false charges".
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