Migrant NGO Ship Ocean Viking Seized in Italy
14th July 2023
Italian authorities have placed the famous migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking under “indefinite” detention because of safety concerns found during an inspection in the port of Civitavecchia, according to a statement published by SOS Méditerranée, the NGO that owns the vessel. The news appeared on Thursday, July 13th—the same day the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the Commission to force Mediterranean countries to open their ports to NGOs.
According to the statement, the Ocean Viking docked at the port on July 11th, after picking up 57 migrants near the Libyan coasts four days prior. After migrants disembarked, the local authorities conducted a seven-hour inspection of the ship, finding several “technical and administrative deficiencies,” including one that requires further investigation to determine the vessel’s seaworthiness under international safety standards.
To the NGO, the detention appears to be politically motivated, because the problem they found—the lack of qualified personnel to deploy lifeboats—was not flagged in any prior inspections. The organization said it was working on resuming its rescue operations on the sea as soon as possible and condemned any attempt to hinder the work of migrant-saving NGOs.
The NGO ‘Migrant Rescue” Scam:
- Migrants, often in co-ordination with ‘migrant rescue’ NGOs, get into something that will float and paddle out beyond the territorial waters.
- NGO ‘migrant rescue ship’ swoops in and ‘rescues’ them.
- Rather than take them back to where they came from (often in sight), the NGO ship takes them to a European port, where under EU policy they are given ‘asylum’ as ‘refugees’.
- Lather, rinse, repeat.
This is why the European population is increasingly Muslim and non-European.