Strong winds are coming up in the operational area and on board the SEA-EYE 4 there are two heavily pregnant women and four babies. The crew had rescued them from a small wooden boat on Wednesday together with 23 other people. 18 of the rescued people are minors. Now these people need a port of safety quickly.
After weeks of political blockade, we were able to free our rescue ship and send the SEA-EYE 4 into its second rescue mission in the Mediterranean. The mission is dedicated to our deceased Sea-Eye chairman Prof. Dr. med. Tilman Mischkowsky.
Due to the devastating situation in Afghanistan, Sea-Eye and over 300,000 people demand in an open letter to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to establish safe passages for all people who are now forced to leave the country.
After a three-month detention of the alliance ship SEA-EYE 4, the inspectors of the Italian coast guard released the SEA-EYE 4 from the so-called administrative detention on Wednesday evening, August 18, 2021.
The legal document is unique and its anniversary is simultaneously a cause for celebration and outrage, but why?
Too many people rescued: The SEA-EYE 4 was detained by Italian authorities after a 12-hour port state control in Palermo. At the same time Palermo’s mayor, Leoluca Orlando, honored the crew of the SEA-EYE 4.
The attacks by EU states on people fleeing to Europe are becoming increasingly brutal. The recent events in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta are just another link in a long chain of escalating state violence.
Yesterday, the crew was able to say goodbye to the last of the more than 400 rescued people in the port of Pozzallo and successfully complete the first rescue mission with our new ship SEA-EYE 4. However, the reception was anything but warm.
The first rescue mission of the SEA-EYE 4 has ended successfully. We have summarized the events of this special mission in a video and we have one request.
The more than 400 people on board the SEA-EYE 4 will go ashore in Pozzallo today. The disembarkation is accompanied by racist comments of the official forces on site. Already on Wednesday, Italy harassed those rescued by assigning them a port of safety two days away.