Thank you for reading the news about First Italy trial over ‘migrant pushback’ to Libya and now with the detailsJeddah - Yasmine El Tohamy - ROME, Italy: The captain of an Italian-flagged ship is to be tried for allegedly forcing migrants back to Libya, in the first such case in Italy, documents seen by AFP show. Libya is not considered a port of safety under international law. Prosecutors in Naples have taken into evidence audio recordings of radio contact that day between the Asso 28 and the Open Arms charity rescue ship, which had requested details on the migrants’ position and condition. Fratoianni described it as “an explicit collective pushback on the part of a ship flying the Italian flag.”The trial was key to “getting to the truth behind too frequent episodes in the central Mediterranean,” he said. These were the details of the news First Italy trial over ‘migrant pushback’ to Libya for this day.

Source: Libya Today July 19, 2020 07:07 UTC