Migrants step off German aid ship after captain defies Italy

ROME (AP) — Forty migrants have disembarked on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa after the captain of the German aid ship which rescued them docked without permission, ramming an Italian border police motorboat which was in its way.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini branded Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete, who was taken into custody Saturday, an “outlaw” who put the lives of the border police at risk.
The German humanitarian group Sea Watch had rescued 53 people fr