125 Migrants Disembark the Alan Kurdi Ship in Sardinia, Italy

The 125 migrants on board the “Alan Kurdi”, the ship of the German aid group Sea-Eye, disembarked Friday after hours of waiting in heavy rain and wind in the port of Olbia in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy.

Italy on Thursday allowed the rescue ship to dock in Sardinia to escape rough seas and said the migrants could eventually disembark in Italy before being sent to other European countries.

Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese told a Parliament committee that Italy had already found European countries that had agreed to take in 100 of the migrants, with Italy taking 25.

She said if the bad weather and rough seas persisted for several days, the migrants could do their 14-day coronavirus quarantine on an Italian ship and then be immediately sent to other European countries.

The Alan Kurdi ship said Wednesday it was heading to port in Marseille, France, with rescued migrants aboard after Italy refused to assign it a port.

Lamorgese concurred that Italy didn’t have a port with the necessary quarantine space available when the Alan Kurdi first requested a port on September 19. But she said Italy agreed to give the Alan Kurdi safe harbour from storms early Thursday “because the respect for human life is for us, as for everyone, the primary thing.”

The Sea-Eye has said the situation aboard the ship was stable after crews rescued at least three different groups of migrants since last weekend. At least 50 are minors, some of them unaccompanied, Sea-Eye said.

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