More Muslim migrants from North Africa and the Middle East are headed to Germany during the coronavirus lockdown. In the same spirit, Italian doctor Caterina Ciufegni has made her own personal decision that “picking up migrants in the Mediterranean matters more than worries over the Wuhan coronavirus.” An estimated 11,000 migrants arrived in Italy in a single week. Many had coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Italy and Germany have been in squabbles over migrants. In September, Italy was so overwhelmed that the Italian coast guard told a German migrant taxi NGO ship to go to Germany.
Yet the intake of migrants has become the norm, and they are unvetted, despite the fact that Germany has already experienced migrant mayhem, from sex assaults to rising crime and violent Islamic antisemitism.
“Germany’s Sea-Eye adds fourth migrant rescue ship to fleet,” DW, November 15, 2020:
The German migrant rescue organization Sea-Eye is bolstering its fleet with an additional rescue ship, the NGO announced on Sunday.
The vessel named Sea-Eye 4 is currently stationed in northern Germany and will begin work as soon as possible, the organization said.
“We just need a lot more rescue ships,” spokesman Gorden Isler told German news agency DPA.
According to the Sea-Eye website, the ship will be its fourth rescue boat.
The project has been largely financed by the United4Rescue alliance, based in the city of Hanover, Sea-Eye confirmed….
The announcement comes as the number of people trying to reach Europe via the treacherous routes in the Mediterranean continues to rise, particularly from Libya to Italy.
On Saturday, the migrant rescue ship Open Arms transferred 255 migrants to Italian authorities in Sicily after the Spanish NGO noticed their boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea earlier this week.
And on Thursday at least 74 people drowned when their boat sank off the Libyan coast, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
The IOM says 900 people have drowned in the Mediterranean this year alone….