01-07-2019 12:00 via lex18.com

The Latest: Germany: Migrant ship captain should be released

ROME (AP) — The Latest on migration issues in Europe (all times local):
12 p.m.
Germany’s foreign minister says the captain of a migrant rescue ship in Italian custody should be released because saving lives is a humanitarian act, not criminal.
Heiko Maas told reporters Monday he’d been in contact with Italian authorities to press the case that it is “not acceptable” to criminalize the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean.
German citizen Carola Rackete has been i
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