Two migrant boats carrying a total of 50 people were intercepted by finance police and accompanied to Lampedusa on Saturday, taking to 430 the total number of arrivals since midnight in 10 distinct landings. The other carried 25 Tunisians, including one woman and two minors, who said they had set sail from Kerkennah in Tunisia. In accordance with international law, it is critical that all survivors disembark in a safe place as quickly as possible,” continued MSF. The decision to assign a distant port does not take the welfare of the newly rescued survivors into account,” it concluded. After the rescues on Tuesday the Geo Barents was instructed to disembark in La Spezia, three days’ sailing from the search and rescue zone.
