Judge says Captain of the Sea Watch acted to save lives and have let her go

Italian magistrate concluded that Carola Rackete don't disrespect the law by blocking drilling and landing 41 African migrants rescued by Dutch ship

An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday, 2, the German captain of a ship of humanitarian rescue did not break any laws by forcing the naval blockade at the weekend, claiming that she was fulfilling your obligation to protect human life.

Carola Rackete, 31 years old, was arrested on Saturday, 29, after disobeying the orders of the Italian authorities and dock in the port of Lampedusa to disembark 41 African migrants who had been rescued by the Dutch flag ship Sea Watch.

The verdict of judge Alessandra Vella that Carola was fulfilling your obligation and not commit any act of violence represents a serious setback for the nationalist Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, far right and anti-immigration.

The Sea Watch ran a blockade of the Italian coast guard, ignoring order solemnly Salvini, who forbade the ship to dock in Italy – a decree approved in June provides for fines of up to €50000 (R $200,000) for those immigrants in the country.

On day 12, the ship rescued 53 people who were adrift in a rubber dinghy off the coast of Libya-11 were children, women or patients, considered "vulnerable" and were removed from the ship by the coast guard. The other 42 remained aboard, but increasingly debilitated.

On Friday evening, two sick passengers had to be evacuated in haste, and the other passengers threatened to jump in the water if there wasn't a solution, after 17 days awaited permission to disembark. "The Commander Carola had no other option," said Giorgia Linardi, spokeswoman for the Sea Watch Italia, the newspaper La Repubblica, adding that "during 36 hours had declared a State of necessity, that the Italian authorities had ignored". "It was a desperate decision," said Leonardo Marino and Alessandro Gamberini, lawyers of the Sea Watch, an NGO based in Germany.

The Italy had forbidden the vessel tangled until other countries of the European Union reached a compromise to accommodate migrants aboard. Five countries – France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal and Finland – were willing to receive them. As Captain you don't got no reply from the Italian authorities, has declared a "State of necessity" to dock in the port of Lampedusa.