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Sea-Watch captain appears before court after bringing migrants to Lampedusa

Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 http://f24.my/YTliveEN She faces up to ten years in prison if convicted... Captain Carola Rackete appeared before a Sicilian court this Monday, A volunteer for German charity Sea-Watch, she was arrested this weekend following a two-week standoff with the Italian authorities. She had been attempting to bring a group of migrants ashore on the island of Lampedusa... when her rescue vessel knocked a police speedboat.SOT SEA-WATCH SPOKESPERSON, GIORGINA LINARDICarola sacrificed herself to bring these people to shore. Even when she was arrested she was asking: "have the people disembarked? Are they on land? This was the only thing she wanted to know. Speaking from her boat last Friday, Rackete described the mental health issues many of the migrants were suffering. ....They had been at sea for 17 days following their rescue off the coast of Libya. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini accuses Rackete of deliberately trying to sink the police patrol boat, describing the event as "an act of war." Meanwhile Germany's foreign minister has called for Rackete, who's a German citizen, to be released, SOT GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER HEIKO MAASSaving lives can't be a crime. It's a humanitarian act and it must be treated as such. It should not be criminalised. That's why we can't understand the events taking place in Italy.Italy's populist government has taken a hardline stance against NGO rescue boats.... Rome insists it hosts more than its fair share of migrants, and is demanding that other European countries do more to help carry the load. Visit our website: http://www.france24.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://f24.my/youtubeEN Like us on Facebook:   / france24.english   Follow us on Twitter:   / france24_en