In the vicinity of Malta, there is one sailing under the German flag ³ód¼ rescue Louise Michel financed by a famous British artist with the pseudonym Banksy. At one point, a small vessel had over two hundred migrants on board – it was overloaded and was in danger of sinking. After an appeal for the captain’s help, an Italian coast guard boat sailed from Lampedusa and took over almost 50 people in poor physical condition, mainly women and children.
A Danish tanker, which has taken nearly 30 migrants off the Libyan coast, has been waiting for permission to enter the port for three weeks nearby. A ship of the German non-governmental organization Sea Watch with 200 migrants is also sailing towards Lampedusa.
In the last two days, 40 boats with migrants arrived on the island. There are over a thousand of them out of 190 places in the center for migrants.
