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Italy approves clampdown on migrant rescue ships, fines charity
File photo. Health officers assist migrants to leave the Geo Barents ship of the MSF docked at the port of La Spezia, Italy, 28 January 2023. Doctors Without Frontiers (MSF) said on 25 January that the Geo Barents conducted its third rescue of the last few days and has 237 asylum seekers on board, adding that 107 people, including 36 minors and five women, were picked up from an overloaded dinghy in the latest operation. [EPA-EFE/LUCA ZENNARO]
EURACTIV.com with Reuters
Feb 23, 2023
Italy’s parliament on Thursday (23 February) passed into law a government decree establishing a code of conduct for migrant charity ships, despite criticism from the United Nations and humanitarian groups that it will imperil lives.
The new set of rules is part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s efforts to crack down on the rescue vessels, which her government says encourage people to make the perilous trip across the Mediterranean from northern Africa.
Charities deny this, saying migrants set to sea regardless of whether rescue boats are in the vicinity.
Under the new law, ships have to request access to a port and sail to it “without delay” after a rescue, rather than remain at sea looking for other migrant boats in distress, and disclose detailed information about their rescue activities.
Previously, vessels operated by charities, or non-governmental organisations (NGOs), often spent several days in the central Mediterranean and regularly completed multiple rescues before heading north towards Italy.
Captains breaching the new rules risk fines of up to €50,000, and repeated violations can result in their vessels being impounded, the law stipulates.
Hours after the parliamentary vote, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said its Geo Barents vessel had been blocked for 20 days and the organisation fined 10,000 euros.
The sanctions were imposed after MSF was accused of withholding some information about a rescue it completed last week, when the Geo Barents took 48 migrants to the Adriatic port of Ancona, a spokesperson for the charity said.
“We are assessing what legal actions we can take to challenge what happened. It is not acceptable to be punished for having saved lives,” MSF said in a tweet.
‘Exploitation, forced labour’
Nicola Molteni, a deputy interior minister and member of the hard-right League party, told the upper Senate before its final vote on Thursday that “if immigration is not controlled, it creates exploitation, forced labour, illegal labour.”
Humanitarian groups said banning multiple rescues would cause ever more deaths while the United Nations urged Italy to withdraw the decree.
“This is simply the wrong way to address this humanitarian crisis,” said Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Roman Catholic Church in Italy last month said the new measures violated international law and should be scrapped.
NGOs also complain the government is forcing them to take migrants to distant northern Italian ports, far from where they carry out the rescues.
The new obligations have significantly increased costs for the NGOs and only a few boats have taken to sea in recent months. But their reduced sailings have done nothing to slow the arrival of migrants.
Government data shows 12,667 people have reached Italy so far this year, more than double the same period of 2022. The missing migrants project says at least 157 people have been reported as missing, presumed dead, this year.
An internal interior ministry document seen by Reuters said out of 105,000 migrants who arrived in Italy in 2022, only around 10% were brought ashore by NGO boats.
Hacker group: Now we attack Danish hospitals
The hacker group Anonymous Sudan writes in a post on Telegram that they want to attack the websites of Danish hospitals, and right now all the websites of the Capital Region's hospitals are inaccessible
All hospitals in the Capital Region are down. Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix
Now it's crazy again.
In a message on Telegram, the hacker group Anonymous Sudan writes on Sunday afternoon that they will attack several Danish hospitals and that 'more will be affected in the coming hours'.
Ekstra Bladet has tried to access several websites belonging to Danish hospitals, and the hospitals under the Capital Region are not accessible, including Rigshospitalet's website.
For example, if you try to visit Herlev or Hvidovre Hospital's website, it says:
'The Capital Region's websites, including the websites of all the region's hospitals, are temporarily unavailable. We are working to make the system work as intended.'
'More will be hit'
In their posting, the hacker group writes that 'some hospitals in Denmark have been attacked due to Koran burnings, and that more will be exposed to attacks in the coming hours.'
However, it is still not confirmed that it was an attack against the hospitals, but Ekstra Bladet is trying to get a comment from the Capital Region.
Has nothing to do with Anonymous
Earlier this week, the websites of several Danish airports were affected by crashes, and here too the hacker group Anonymous Sudan took responsibility.
Swedish websites have also been hit by crashes, and in these cases too, the group has assumed responsibility. The group claims that the attacks are a response to the Koran burnings that have taken place in Denmark and Sweden.
In an interview with Ekstra Bladet earlier this week, Steffen Friis, an IT expert at the cyber security company Vipre Security, explained that the group Anonymous Sudan has nothing to do with the well-known hacker group Anonymous.
This is an attack on free speech, which does not exist in Islam. Nor will it exist in Europe when the numbers of Muslims grow. Perhaps Anonymous could assist with tracking Anonymous Sudan?
Palestinians who stabbed police in Norrköping are wanted in custody
Published 3/2/2023
Samnytt
56-year-old Khaled Anan is wanted in custody for Monday's knife attack against a police officer outside the police station in Norrköping. According to the arrest warrant, he is suspected of murder on probable grounds.
The prosecutor assesses that there is a risk that Khaled Anan, a Palestinian who according to his own statement has a background in the PLO and is now a Swedish citizen, will continue to commit crimes if he is released. The detention hearing will be held at 15:00 today.
Anan is still being treated in hospital after being shot by police in connection with the arrest.
"Unacceptable"
The police authority stated yesterday that the condition was stable and not life-threatening for the knife-cut police officer. National Police Chief Anders Thornberg took the opportunity to call the stabbing "unacceptable".
- Violence directed at a police officer is an attack on the entire Police Authority, our employees should feel safe in their work and at their workplace, this is completely unacceptable, he said in a statement.
Khaled Anan is previously convicted of attacking Swedish police officers. The first time already in 2001, which Samnytt previously reported on.
He was treated until this summer in a forensic psychiatric ward for a petrol attack on police officers in 2013. The administrative court, which made the decision to release him, then considered "that there is no longer a considerable risk that he will relapse into serious crime as a result of the mental disorder."
The administrative court should be sent to prison for this lunacy! All devout Muslims are mentally ill and incurably so.
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