The words of the lawyers of MEDITERRANEAN Saving Humans

The preliminary hearing in the case of aiding and abetting illegal immigration in connection with the rescue of 27 shipwrecked people abandoned in desperate conditions on board the tanker Maersk Etienne for 38 days between August and September has been postponed until 14th February.

The trial has nothing to do with what has appeared in recent days in some of the newspapers of the same editorial group, which have published excerpts of acts that have been unlawfully withheld from the investigation file. We have already filed a complaint to establish criminal responsibility for what happened.

This morning we formally expressed to the judge the seriousness of what is happening, which we consider to be a hostile act not only against the accused but also against the court, and asked the Public Prosecutor's Office to establish what has happened.

Lawyers Fabio Lanfranca and Serena Romano

Ragusa, 6th December 2023