Il German Government he asked Italy to “quickly help” the 104 unaccompanied minors rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Humanity 1 ship flying the German flag. Thus Berlin in the letter in response to the Italian government's “note verbale” with which it was asked to take charge of the migrants rescued on the NGO ships flying the German and Norwegian flags.
The letter was made known by the Rai 3 broadcast The horse and the tower. "The Federal Government replied in writing to the Italian Government's Note Verbale setting out its interpretation of the law - did Berlin know - For the federal government, civilian organizations committed to rescuing migrants make an important contribution to saving lives in the Mediterranean. Saving life-threatening people is the most important thing. According to information provided by Sos Humanity on the ship humanity 1 flying the German flag, there are currently 104 unaccompanied minors. Many of them need medical attention. We asked the Italian government to help quickly ”.
On 23 October, the Interior Ministry had presented a verbal note to the two governments to which the two NGO ships are headed, which are currently requesting a landing in an Italian safe port after having recovered hundreds of migrants from Libya at sea. In addition to the German-flagged ship, it is also the Norwegian-flagged Geo Barents. In an interview published in Corriere della Sera, the minister Matteo Piantedosi he reiterated that he had "acted immediately to give an immediate signal to the flag states: we cannot take care of the migrants collected at sea by foreign ships that operate systematically without any prior coordination by the authorities. At the moment these events represent 16% of the people landed in Italy ”.