Alt-right anti-immigrant ship is in trouble, GUESS who is helping them...

[Archae]

The rescue immigrants organization's ship.

"Alt-right" ship gets stranded at sea trying to keep migrants out of Europe, will be saved by refugee rescue ship

Operators of the “alt-right” vessel previously accused their rescuers of human trafficking

The C-Star, a ship used by anti-immigrant group Defend Europe to disrupt humanitarian search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea, has been “stranded in the Central Mediterranean,” the Independent reported. Italian officials told Sea-Eye, a German nongovernmental organization (NGO) that operates rescue ships in the Mediterranean, that Defend Europe’s vessel “had suffered a mechanical failure and could not manoeuvre,” according to the report. Sea-Eye Chairman Michael Buschheuer confirmed that one of the group’s rescue ships had been dispatched to help the stranded vessel, saying, “To help a ship in distress in the duty of anyone at sea, without regard for their origin, race, religion or beliefs.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/11/alt-right-ship-gets-stranded-sea-trying-keep-migrants-out-europe-will-be-saved-refugee-rescue-ship/217596

[Ken Burch]

1. If they could, Defend Europe would probably disrupt THIS humanitarian mission:

"Can't you see it's our destiny to drown for Odin?"

[Ken Burch]

2. Point of information: Are there any statutes of international maritime law

that cover what Defend Europe has been doing?

I can't believe there wouldn't be some penalties in deliberately interfering with efforts to save life at sea.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Refusing aid

A GERMAN RESCUE ship says that anti-immigration activists whose boat had run into trouble in the Mediterranean have refused their help.
...
Germany’s Sea-Eye, one of nine NGOs involved in migrant search and rescue (SAR) operations and a target of the C-Star’s campaign, said it had been “asked by the MRCC (the Italian command centre) to assist the ship”.

It had rushed to the location, Link to tweet
" target="_blank">only to be refused.

http://www.thejournal.ie/stranded-migrant-ship-3542072-Aug2017/

The twwet at the link auto-translates as ""C-Star" in distress (update): identitarian ship refuses the help of Regensburg (11.8.2017)" - timestamped two and a half hours ago.

I thought this was ironic - "The 40-metre long ship, which is flying under a Mongolian flag, is leased by the far-right group Generation Identity."

Yeah, nothing says genuine European ship like one from a landlocked Asian country ...

[AngryAmish]

4. Don't you see that they are doing?

Wasting resources of the rescuers. They will keep doing this.

[SharonClark]

5. Hadn't thought of that but it sounds probably.