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Refugee rescuers charged in Italy with complicity in people smuggling Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Reuters After an investigation lasting almost four years, Italian prosecutors have charged dozens of rescuers, from charities including Save the Children and Médecins Sans Frontières, who were accused of collaborating with people smugglers after saving thousands of people from drowning in the Mediterranean. Investigators in Trapani, Sicily, formally closed the inquiry on Monday and charged more than 20 people, including boat captains, heads...

Italian magistrates set to level charges against sea rescuers, NGOs FILE PHOTO: Ronia, 24, a member of the German NGO Jugend Rettet watches rescuers from the Save the Children NGO transferring migrants from the vessel Iuventa to their ship after her organisation rescued them from an overcrowded dinghy during an operation off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra reuters_tickers This content was published on March 3, 2021 - 20:20 March 3, 2021 - 20:20 By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - A German aid group that operated a migrant rescue boat in the...