(ANSA) – AGRIGENTO, DEC 23 – “Carola Rackete acted in the fulfillment of the rescue duty provided for by the national and international law of the sea”. With these reasons, the investigating judge of the Agrigento court, Micaela Raimondo, closed the investigation against the commander of Sea Watch3 who, in April, had already been definitively acquitted of the accusation of resistance to a public officer and violence against a warship.
Accusations arising from the alleged ramming of the Guardia di Finanza patrol boat on 29 June 2019, the day of the arrest. The new proceeding, now filed at the request of the deputy prosecutor Salvatore Vella and the prosecutor Cecilia Baravelli, concerned an episode three days earlier when the thirty-three-year-old German, defended by lawyers Leonardo Marino and Alessandro Gamberini, decided to enter without authorization with the ship, which it was stationed in front of Lampedusa but in international waters, in Italian territorial waters.
The accusation of refusal of obedience to a warship was joined by that of aiding and abetting illegal immigration for having allowed 53 immigrants to enter Italian territory.
“He acted – writes the investigating judge – in fulfilling his duty because the port of Tripoli could not be considered a safe place”.
The judge cites a report by the United Nations High Commissioner in which it underlines “that thousands of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Libya are in arbitrary detention and are subjected to torture”. As for having brought them to Italy, despite the ban, the investigating judge adds: “The conduct is judged by the cause of justification”. (HANDLE).
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