translated from Spanish: Migrants rescued: Open Arms declares the situation on board the ship is “unsustainable”

The NGO Open Arms warned on Saturday that the situation aboard its rescue vessel is “unsustainable” after 17 days without finding a port with 134 rescued migraines on board. In a video posted on Twitter, Open Arms founder, Anscar Camps, has confirmed that there are “constant fights and discussions” between passengers, creating “unsustainable” tensions. The ship is now located right on the Italian coast of Lampedusa after Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused entry into the country. Salivini has again accused the non-governmental organization (NGO) of waging “a political, certainly non-humanitarian battle” to flood Italy with migrants and has expressed doubts that the thirteen migrants evacuated from the ship so far had health problems, as the NGO claimed. However, doctors from the Knights of Malta, a Catholic charity that previously boarded the Open Arms, found 20 immigrants with scabies and several with bladder infections. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who disagrees with Salvini in the midst of an imminent government crisis, has called for the urgent evacuation of minors, at least, and has confirmed that at least six EU countries (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania and Spain) have agreed to accept Open Arms immigrants if they are landed.

Original source in Spanish