"A historic sentence, all members of the crew of the NGOs Jugend Rettet, Save the children and Doctors Without Borders acquitted because the fact does not exist.
This shows that helping is an obligation and that as we have always said, solidarity is not a crime". The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, said this, commenting on the ruling of no place to prosecute for the 10 defendants accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration in the proceedings against members of the crew of the NGOs JugendRettet, Save The Children and Doctors Without Borders.
"The humanitarian organizations involved in rescue operations at sea must be thanked and not criminalised, because they make up for the lack of a European search and rescue mission at sea for which the Democratic Party will continue to fight: essentially they do what the States and the Union should do Let's hope no one ever dares to call them sea taxis again", concludes Schlein.