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<\/p>\nTunisian fishermen have prevented a ship carrying European far-right activists from docking, dealing a blow to their mission to disrupt the flow of migrant boats from Africa to Europe.<\/p>\n
The C-Star, chartered by French-based group G\u00e9n\u00e9ration identitaire (GI), was unable to berth in Zarzis.<\/p>\n
GI says non-governmental organisations active in the Mediterranean collude with people traffickers.<\/p>\n
But the Zarzis fishermen said the anti-migrant activists were racists.<\/p>\n
They vowed not to let the C-Star refuel if it landed and the vessel is now expected to try another Tunisian port on Monday.<\/p>\n
“It is the least we can do given what is happening out in the Mediterranean,” Chamseddine Bourassine, head of the local fishermen’s organisation, told AFP news agency. “Muslims and Africans are dying.”<\/p>\n
A port official who asked to remain anonymous said: “Us let in racists here? Never.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile humanitarian groups say any attempt to turn migrant boats back to Libya could be very dangerous and illegal under international law.<\/p>\n About 600,000 migrants have been rescued from traffickers’ boats and taken to Italy since the beginning of 2014.<\/p>\n More than 10,000 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean over the same period.<\/p>\n Earlier this month rights group Amnesty International\u00a0accused\u00a0the EU of mostly leaving it up to sea rescue charities to save migrants.<\/p>\n At the same time, NGOs have come under criticism from the Italian authorities, who have threatened to stop vessels of other countries from bringing migrants to Italian ports.<\/p>\n Italy’s parliament has approved\u00a0a plan to send naval boats to Libya as part of its efforts to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean, and is asking NGO rescue ships to abide by a code of conduct.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tunisian fishermen have prevented a ship carrying European far-right activists from docking, dealing a blow to their mission to disrupt the flow of migrant boats from Africa to Europe. The C-Star, chartered by French-based group G\u00e9n\u00e9ration identitaire (GI), was unable to berth in Zarzis. GI says non-governmental organisations active in the Mediterranean collude with people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/14D4B\/production\/_97232358_tunisia_zarzis.png\")
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