More than 100 shipwrecked migrants should have forced the captain of a trading vessel to control to Malta. Now the Maltese army took control of the Tanker.
The Maltese army has taken control of a merchant ship, to be of migrants have been compromised. The Tanker “Elhiblu 1” and was escorted to Malta. The migrants and the Crew would be handed over to the police, informed the military. The captain of the ship had previously stated, he and his Crew were nearing the port of Tripoli have been a number of migrants forced to change course and head in the direction of Malta.
in Penetrating the Maltese territorial waters early in the Morning, two patrol boats in the accompaniment of a helicopter would have stopped the ship initially, the military declared in an official communication. Finally, the special forces had gone on Board. Of resistance on Board, there was no question in the statement. Now, the Maltese police will determine the exact sequence of events.
the captain called for the support of
The Tanker had picked up shipwrecked in international waters off Libya. A total of more than 100 migrants on Board, including around 30 women and children. “You are fragile, no ship, but pirates,” wrote Italy’s interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Twitter. The Tanker had changed six nautical miles off the Libyan port of Tripoli, and suddenly its course. The operator of the ship and the Libyan authorities were not initially reach.
The German aid organization, the Sea-Eye said, your rescue ship “Alan Kurdi” ‘ve been listening to the radio between the “Elhiblu 1” and a European naval aircraft. The captain asked for, therefore support, because the people on Board were “very upset and not return to Libya, brought back want to be”.