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Using her boat to physically block a ship from leaving the harbor and firing flares in that direction. That is definitely illegal.

The ship had no cargo at the time, but even if it was carrying tons of heroin and literal slaves, trying to block a large ship at night with a small boat is dangerous vigelantee behavior at best.

And it's most definitely illegal. Call the coast guard if you think something illegal is going on. The minute you start forcing ships to maneuver around you at night, your risking the lives on that ship and any ships they might hit trying to avoid you.

The rediculous part is that she was there to supposedly stop "human trafficking", but her and her boatmates were chanting "no illegal immigration" the entire time.

No one except these far right groups think that NGOs are working with smugglers to get people into Europe. And the far right groups don't care about it either as evidenced by what they were chanting and what they say on their website. They've just latched onto something they think they can use to justify their anti illegal immigrant stance.

There's no evidence of it. It's like an Italian renting a car and pulling out in front of trucks headed into the US because she says she thinks they might underage prostitutes in them.

It's not your job to enforce a foreign country's immigration policies, and it's definitely illegal to try to do it by endangering yourself and the crew of another ship.

The even more rediculous part is that the group she was working with has actually been accused of human trafficking after several of the crew of their ship requested asylum and said they paid to access the boat.



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Would you both please stop this? It's destructive of this site to use it for political and ideological battle.


>Under what jurisdiction?

You're seriously arguing about the legality of using your boat to attempt to block a ship from leaving a harbor? I'm going to leave it to you to find the law the coast guard believed the violated when they arrested them. I don't speak Italian, so you have at it.

>Wrong. The Chief Prosecutor of Catania, Sicily thinks so:

And he's a far right politician who has zero evidence.

After he made that statement, the Italian Justice Minister asked him to open an investigation if he had any evidence, but he refused and stated it was merely a hypothesis and he had no actual evidence.

There's nothing but looney toons conspiracy theories to support this stuff about George Soros working with ISIS to smuggle in terrorists, it's complete nonsense.

I get it, you want to keep Europe white. Defend Europe wants to keep Europe white. Far right news sites and bloggers wants to keep Europe white.

You can say that without resorting to conspiracy theories, and trying to co-opt the international outrage against sex trafficking.

I get why you do it, out right saying that you want a white civilization isn't palatable to most people. But wrapping it up in language about "Western Civilization" and stopping human trafficking is so transparent that it's not worth the effort.

And if you do want to keep migrants out of Italy for whatever reason, the correct way to do it isn't by pulling your boat in front of a ship at night and firing flares at it.


Sorry, I can't allow your falsehoods to stand. You're letting ideology get in the way of facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVIoj2tYtw

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/most-european...


Would you both please stop this and not do it again? It's destructive of this site to use it for political and ideological battle.


What do you mean by political and ideological battle? I've had plenty of political and ideological debates her over the years I've been here.

What exactly is it about this one that crosses the line?

If I see someone pushing conspiracy theories about NGOs working with ISIS to smuggle migrants into Europe, I'm going to call that out.




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