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    O captain, my captain: sailors who risk jail to save migrants' lives

    Carola Rackete is latest in string of rescue ship captains who challenge Italy’s closed-port policy
    by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo Jul 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Pia Klemp, the Iuventa ship captain, is facing up to 20 years in prison for saving 6,000 people from drowning in the Mediterranean. Photograph: Lisa Hoffmann

    Carola Rackete is not the only captain to have clashed with the Italian authorities in recent years while attempting to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean.

    The case of Rackete – whom a judge eventually released from house arrest last Tuesday – closely resembles that of a German captain, Stefan Schmidt, who, 15 years earlier, was in command of the NGO ship Cap Anamur.

    Carola Rackete
    Carola Rackete, captain of the rescue ship Sea-Watch, was released from house arrested after breaking an Italian blockade. Photograph: Matteo Guidelli/AP

    In June 2004, Schimdt and his crew had located a sinking raft carrying

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