The criminal proceedings initiated against operators of the NGOs Jugend Rettet, Save The Children and Doctors Without Borders have ended in Trapani after 7 years, and with a ruling of no place to proceed. The 10 defendants who were accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration were all acquitted.
The humanitarian organizations were accused by the Trapani prosecutors of having made agreements with human traffickers and of not having actually provided assistance to the refugees, but of having acted as “taxis” for them, transferring them from Libyan ships to which they would then have allowed them to return. back undisturbed.
But for the judge for the preliminary hearings (GUP) the fact does not exist and the non-procedure had been requested by the same prosecutor of the Sicilian town after an investigation costing almost 3 million euros. The Ministry of the Interior was a civil party in the proceedings, which deferred to the judge’s decision. The prosecutors had also ordered the seizure of the Iuventa vessel of the NGO Jugend Rettet, one of the three humanitarian organizations involved: a vessel which, in the meantime, has suffered extensive damage and is now unusable.
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