Boat with about 400 refugees on board sunk
Once again, people have lost their lives as they fled across the Mediterranean. And once again Frontex did not come to the rescue.
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Sea-Eye asks German Foreign Minister Baerbock and the German Foreign Office for help
Due to the new Italian law, all rescue ships could soon be detained. Sea-Eye has therefore addressed 5 points to the German Foreign Office, to ensure that sea rescue is still possible in the future.
SEA-EYE 4 detained in Ortona after rescue operations
On Friday evening, the Italian Coast Guard detained the German sea rescue ships SEA-EYE 4 and MARE*GO for 20 days. This is another reprehensible attempt to criminalize sea rescue and flight itself in order to justify ever more brutal state action.
49 refugees leave SEA-EYE 4 in Ortona
On Friday morning, the SEA-EYE 4 docked in the port of Ortona and the 49 refugees on board were able to go ashore. Even if the feared penalties for carrying out several rescues have so far failed to materialize, it is unbearable that sea rescuers are always at risk of being criminalized and punished.
Sea rescuers face heavy penalties for saving lives
On Tuesday evening, the SEA-EYE 4 rescued 32 people from an unseaworthy wooden boat. Already on Sunday, the crew had rescued 17 people. Despite these successful operations, Sea-Eye now faces heavy penalties in Italy.
SEA-EYE 4 starts second mission of the year
Sea rescuers criticize German government for planned tightening of asylum law The SEA-EYE 4 departed Burriana on Friday evening (19.05.2023) for the second rescue mission in 2023. Now the crew is on its way to the Central Mediterranean Sea. There, the rescue ship is urgently needed, because this year alone, more than 1,000 people have already […]
SEA-EYE 4 brings 105 people to safety in Naples
At the end of this difficult mission, we mourn three people who died on the escape.
Tragic operation in the Mediterranean
In the first of two rescues during the night from Thursday to Friday, all help came too late for two people. The crew of the SEA-EYE 4 could only recover their bodies, including the mother of a baby, who is now being cared for on board the rescue ship.
SEA-EYE 4 launches on first rescue mission in 2023
Today, more people have already died at Europe’s borders than the new year has days! All the more important that the SEA-EYE 4 could now cast off.
Sea-Eye criticizes Italy’s new code of conduct for sea rescue NGOs
With new rules of conduct at the end of the year, the Italian government wants to further complicate the work for civilian sea rescue organizations and, according to legal experts from Sea-Eye’s Legal Team, massively interferes with the rights of the flag state Germany, European law and international and regional human rights guarantees.