
Italy Investigates NGO ‘Rescuing’ Migrants from Smuggler Boats
Frontex footage shows 90 migrants being transferred, in the Mediterranean Sea off Tripoli, from a vessel controlled by masked men to a ship of German NGO Sea-Watch.

Frontex footage shows 90 migrants being transferred, in the Mediterranean Sea off Tripoli, from a vessel controlled by masked men to a ship of German NGO Sea-Watch.

A Sicilian court has ordered the government to pay €76,000 to the German NGO Sea-Watch for the 2019 seizure of its migrant rescue vessel.

The plan likely comes in response to the massive uptick of illegal migration witnessed along the Central Mediterranean this year.