The rescue vessel "Ocean Viking" took 60 migrants on board in the Mediterranean Sea during the night of Friday. They were rescued from a crowded wooden boat about 111 kilometers off the Libyan coast, according to aid organizations SOS Méditerranée and MSF on Twitter. Among them were therefore a three-month-old baby and his three-year-old brother.
The "Ocean Viking", operated by the two aid organizations, had taken a total of 215 people on three rescue operations last week. A woman pregnant with twins and a man were taken by helicopter from the ship, before it came to the port of the Italian city of Messina at the weekend.
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At a meeting in September, Italy, Germany, France and Malta had agreed on a rescue plan for the Mediterranean Sea. This "temporary solidarity mechanism" provides for a group of EU states to agree to rescind boaters rescued from Italy and Malta for six months.
This is to prevent ships with refugees from having to spend days or weeks on the high seas until distribution is cleared and migrants can land. The emergency mechanism is intended as a temporary solution until the current asylum system of the EU is revised. But until today he lacks broad support.
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