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Now for a proper perspective from the excellent German website: PI News:

The following article is translated from a PI News post from June 30th:

What is the current role of the German press in human trafficking?

This past Thursday, the Sea-Watch 3 invaded Italian territorial waters, contrary to an explicit ban by the country’s government. The German professional tugboat captain Carola Rackete, now in Italian custody, had taken in “42 refugees rescued from distress at sea” off the Libyan coast to present herself to the world as a noble saviour. For this she needed a port of destination (or maybe not), but all European countries had refused her up until then. You read correctly, every European, not only naughty Italy.

So on June 27th, with a grandstanding pose in front of the camera (0:21 min) she announces that she will enter the port of Lampedusa: “I will proceed into the port. Be informed! I will proceed into the port. Over.”

That’s just what a noble person from Germany does, who wants to serve as a role model for the world. The cameras for the show were provided by NDR (German taxpayer funded TV), which was “embedded” on the Seawatch with two journalists. Why were they there and since when? Just two of several questions that the critical observer has to ask himself. The NDR journalists had reported this from the Sea Watch before entering the Italian port:

From reporter Jonas Schreieck:

After pictures showing the unfortunate condition of the poor “refugees” (0:33 min), Schreieck says that the mood is tense, that nearby Lampedusa is, “only a stone’s throw away”, “was a glimmer of hope for the rescued”, but alas now the police are on board. Then the presenter of the programme adds that the Italian Minister of the Interior (Salvini) is known as a “loud mouthed right-wing populist” and held a speech full of rage.

Second reporter Nadia Kailouili in video from 27.06.2019 (from 0:31 min) says:

“Yes, the captain went into the territorial waters of Italy yesterday. She has had rescued people on board for more than 15 days now and since then has not received any promise from a European port to take the people to safety.” Kailouili also describes the contact with the Italian authorities as a deplorable condition of the poor “refugees”.

As you can see, the establishment’s reporting is right in line with Merkel’s state doctrine, no critical questions. However, we at PI-NEWS as a non-mainstream news blog would have liked to have an answer to these following questions :

1. Since when have NDR journalists been at Sea-Watch? For how long was the stay planned, how long was it actually?
2. Were they only there as a couple or with other employees (camera, sound) on board? How many in total?
3. What was the reason for the NDR employees to go on board?

4. Were the circumstances of the “rescue” questioned (position of the damaged boat, why it became unseaworthy, cooperation of Sea-Watch with the human trafficking mafia)? If so, when will it be reported?
5.Is/was the NDR aware that Interior Minister Salvini would probably have let the refugees ashore immediately if other European countries had agreed to accept them?
6. How did the NDR journalists get on board (helicopter, ship)?
7. How much did the transfer of the NDR team to Italy and from there to the ship cost, as well as the entire stay (approximate information)?

We kindly ask the NDR to answer these questions. As usual, we will publish the answer unchanged and unabridged. But since we know that transparency and openness are not the strength of the NDR, we rather expect that the NDR will not answer us. Of course, the broadcaster knows about this article, because the employees regularly read along on our website. Furthermore, with the publication of this article, we also sent a mail with the link to the NDR.

In addition, we would like to ask our readers to address some of the questions to the NDR in a slightly modified form. Should you receive an answer, we will be happy to publish it on PI-NEWS.

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